1+1= "expanding soundstage and extra air"

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Comparisons of the digital waveform and the resultant analogue output.

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19 hours ago, crenca said:

 

 

Maybe it was here, maybe elsewhere - but I was reading recently a photographer explain how it is common for them to add distortion back into a dig photo in post processing, because this has the effect of adding "grain" makes the photo appear to have extra detail - the intentionally (low level) distorted photo appears to have higher resolution.  Apparently this is common/well understood practice.

 

I wondered to myself if this is not similar to how some distortion (but not all) such as that added by wet, warmish, reverbant, pleasant sounding tubes - which most of us have experienced directly.

 

Pure speculation and probably false anologizing of course...  😉

Sharpening in lightroom, if I get chance I will do an over bloated sharpening, you can see the noise. You have control over the size, depth etc. of the noise. Bit like my current favourite system, SET with open baffle speakers... bad though it may be having that distortion, I prefer its presentation to a more accurate system.