"Keith G" wrote in message


OK, to round it off, I have posted a couple of
(identical?) 30sec extracts from the original WAVs to
remove any 'MP3 spuriae' and have more clearly titled
them:
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...%20Extract.wav

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...%20Extract.wav

Very different samples from before, even though the music is a subset of
what came before. They also showed up rather precisely level-matched.

But have a care Arny, mon brave - if I read the above
right (?) and you are saying you prefer the Fidelio
treble (as I do) then it's a vote for triodes and horns

No, I still prefer the Fidelios sample, and I still hear a crunching sort
distortion on the Ruarks sample, instead of the more natural crisp sound of
undistorted percussion.

I also analyzed the two samples technically, and can see a big hole around
2KHz, and peakiness around 18 KHz in the Ruarks sample.