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by willis936 2236 days ago
Effective modeling, yes, but not necessarily accurate modeling. The analog circuits are imperfect in many subtle ways, and component level simulation is rare (if it exists at all, I have not seen it). It’s all a bunch of high level approximations that don’t nail the feel to the point of beating blind tests.

It can be done. I don’t know why we aren’t there.

The audio world is halfway to to the alien truther community: the closer a rational outsider looks at it, the crazier they feel. Technically, it’s a trivial field. Yet here we are with snake oil saturation and subpar solutions.

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https://www.fractalaudio.com/iii/

This guy has been doing component level simulation from the beginning. I have one and it is accurate enough to convince some pretty big players to ditch their tube amps.