On Tuesday 24 August 2004 01:17, The Old Crow wrote:
> The filters are different topologies, which pretty much
> dispels the myth that the "CS80 custom chips are
> integrated versions of the discrete circuits in the GX1."
> Both exhibit some basic similarities (the 480 is a pair
> of 2nd-order filters, each 485 is a single 2nd-order
> filter), both have specific feedback-damping to prevent
> self-oscillation, although I increased the adjustment on
> the 485 to let it introduce "bad" IM distortion, because
> it sounded musically useful. The bottom line is, they
> sound different.
I guess the reason (apart from cash) why I still don't have
a 480 is that I'm afraid it's too self-contained or 'neat'
sounding. The audio demos didn't prove otherwise.
Am I wrong here? Or if this indeed the case, is there a way
to make the 480 go a little wilder?
Robert