Re: [LAU] [Bulk] Re: Why does PHASEX sound so damn good?

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 08 2014 - 13:55:50 EEST

On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 10:22 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 06:24:41PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
>
> > It sounds so... raw, uncontrolled, well, ANALOG. Most software simulations sound
> > more or less authentic, but all so much more "tame", for want of a better term.
> > But PHASEX always sounded to me (and felt, as I was playing with it) that at any
> > moment it could do something crazy like throw a DC offset, to into an uncontrollable
> > oscillation, or blow up my speakers, etc.
>
> You have been lucky then. If your sound card and amp are DC coupled,
> Phasex *will* blow up your speakers. On my first test it produced a
> DC offset 30 dB above the audio signal level.
>
> Whatever qualities it may have, this is crappy.

I can't remember such an issue, with the versions of Phasex I used.

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