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    The Crystallizer explained

    OK, so if a song being played through your X-FI has 20db dynamic range (and that is being generous), and the Crystallizer expansion adds another 10db dynamic range (and that is being VERY VERY generous, as that much expansion would sound like crap), we have 30db useful dynamic range. We hardly...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    What is this mysterious force you keep mentioning? Seriously, please state specifically what "artifacting" is occuring to the typical waveform and why. And no, "lots of audiophiles say it happens" does not count as an explanation.
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    The Crystallizer explained

    Well, this isn't actually the case. The most renowned and sought-after "classic" microphone preamplifiers in the recording industry are in fact solid-state. API, Neve, SSL, Sony, etc. Much of the same applies to signal processing. Yeah, the LA-2A is the common exception, but (seemingly...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    Well, I could easily tell you which is which, but have to cheat to do it :) I've experimented with running some popular pop tunes through a truncation to 6 bits. In most of them you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between the 16-bit version and the 6-bit version even on the best of...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    Audiophiles are a bunch of crackers. They rarely do proper blind ABX tests to validate their vast claims ($2000 power cables?) and often jump on the latest, expensive fad without any substaniative proof other than that is seems to sound better to them (usually because they want it to, and they...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    I have a lot more to say on this subject than I have time to write. I see both sides of this argument, but not for the reasons Creative says. Overcompressed mastering is the evil Crystallizer fights (although it doesn't do it properly), not the dynamic range inherent in 16-bit recordings. And...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    Wow, where to begin. You are trying to draw empirical conclusions from anecdotal evidence. As I said, I am a recording engineer. I have some training in digital audio theory, including Nyquist, and I deal with subjective sound quailty assessments every single day. You are making some...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    One more thing. This is really just fancy "attempting-to-confuse-you" speak for saying it's an auto-threshold multiband expander; and maybe (if you're lucky) the EQ is linear-phase. The very word they used "nonlinear" should scare anyone who knows a thing or two about DSP. (This is a...
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    The Crystallizer explained

    This (bolded) part is just a flat-out lie. There is no method for any DSP to do anything like what they say. First off, conversion to 16-bit has nothing to do with compression. It is called dithering and truncation. Through dithering, commonly the last process applied to a master before it is...
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