Vintage sampler

[audioagape7]

I think someone should create a sample bank that would reproduce the sounds of different audio receivers; you could hook it up to your system and it could sound like whatever vintage gear you wanted , but then I suppose it would just be on the macintosh setting all the time......

 

[Markw]

That's like Bose demonstrating the superiority of their systems on late night TV.

 

[audioagape7]

I have seen some guitar amps and effects that work on this principle and seem to do a pretty good job.

 

[Ken Boyd]

Or like listening to a person's system on Youtube to hear how good they sound, but overall they won't sound any better than the speakers on your PC.

 

[ConradH]

What would be interesting is to choose some standard program material and run it through various vintage receivers, loading the output and recording a divided portion of that output signal to a file. Naturally the levels would have to be perfectly matched/standardized. It would be interesting to hear the differences, if there were any. My guess is they'd be smaller than commonly believed. But, I've been wrong before- you can ask my wife! It might also be interesting to do the same thing with restored vs. non-restored electronics.

 

[Markw]

I have seen some guitar amps and effects that work on this principle and seem to do a pretty good job.

Those guitar effects to which you refer are intentionally designed to distort sounds in an effort to "produce" music. IOW, that guitar "distortion"* is part of the intended final result. I do believe the "effects" to which you are initially refering to are much more subtle than that and are designed to REproduce music as exactly as possible.

* and that's exactly what it is. Intentionally introduced distortion,

 

[audioagape7]

no this is actually an amp that reproduces the sounds of different guitars matched with amplifiers it worked by sampling I believe.

 

[KentTeffeteller]

Yes, and the real gear beats DSP modeling. If I want to hear a McIntosh, a Marantz, a Yamaha or any other I need to hear the actual unit. Likewise, if I want to hear a Marshall amp, a Fender, or a Vox amp, I want to hear the amp. Simulations however good don't get you the true experience in either discipline.