On 12/1/08 11:23 AM, "Argitoth" < argitoth@... > wrote:

> ... I don't understand why people can't accept the fact some of us
> desire perfection.

Duke Ellington: "If it sounds good, it IS good."
perfect anything doesn't mean it sounds good, it just all will sound the
same, plenty of great pre-amps out there, but classics are always quite
colored like the the Neve. There are plenty of pre-amp with better specs
than the neve for $100, but a Neve is still a $3000+ preamp.

If you want perfect, that is software/digital the only reason analog still
exists is because it often sounds better, why, the imperfections.
Analog: tweaked until it sounds good
Digital: tweaked until it looks good

as for that sine, no one cared about that poor sine wave until about 10
years ago. Many synths don't offer it, even Blacet wasn't going to include
it on their VCO, until enough of us asked about it. So it probably is an
after-thought on many modules especially on designs older than 5 years. The
sine was really dead until microsound folks like Ryoji Ikeda started to
exploit it. Still those "perfect" sterile waves were from test equipment or
computers, as it took a mammoth $5000.00 test osc to produce such perfect
sines for them or the computer which could easily do it. But without out
even the subtle imperfections that analog will always exhibit and gives it
it's uniqueness often "warmth."

Since you're result is audio, I'd kinda think you you should base your
direction and opinions on what sounds good to you.
-p