On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:55:33 +0300, Fella wrote:

dave weil wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:28:22 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton
wrote:


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:39:34 -0500, dave weil
wrote:


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:21:54 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton
wrote:


Pity that, since it sounds just the same as *well designed* high end
gear such as you can buy from Meridian or Krell.

Said the Krell owner.

Indeed - but not many modern speakers are as hard to drive as my
Apogee Duetta Sigs.


Don't you know that Arnold claims that $200 commercial amps from
companies like Behringer don't have any problems delivering massive
amounts of power to almost any load?

Or QSC amps for that matter.. And yes, isn't so that they will sound
*identical* with whatever krell or ML amp you put them up against in a
*level matched* bias adjusted nousiane approved dbt? Just make sure that
there are more than enough cheap banana connections and abx boxes and
level adjustment gear in between the speakers and the amps.

If that puts a bug up your ass, just swap cables and put a high
quality attenuator in series with the higher gain amp.

Take care
NOT to hear the qsc amp on it's own prior to any testing.

Why not? remember, one of the basic principles of ABX is that you
*always* have both A and B available as known quantities. Shame that
your peanut brain doesn't understand these basics.

Thus when the
terrible sound of the qsc starts to bother you, you can say to yourself
that it sounded the same with the krell.

What makes you think that a QSC will sound terrible? Have you ever
actually *listened* to one?

Or do like arny. Get an $80
yamaha reciever of some sorts. When *frequently* you can't stand the
sound of the qsc, you can just escape to the pioneer (which will ****
the music over in a different way then the qsc). When the sound of the
pioneer starts to f.ck with you, run back to the krell.. All the
while, remember that they all sound the same.

That's the fun part of it. Mostly, they *do* sound the same. It takes
a truly outrageously priced 'high end' amp to really **** up the
sound!

But seriously though, it seems that only pinkerton is allowed to indulge
in "audiophilia". He can own krell amps, he can construct exotic cables
*and* _boast_ about them on petty internet "check out my system y'all"
sites.

Oh dear, I do believe that you're turning a particularly bilious shade
of green....................... :-)

Do as u preach pinkerton. Sell your krell amp to some "gullible
audiophile". Buy a qsc amp to drive those barn door speakers of yours.
They all ound the saaamee. Sell those silver clad exotic "interconnects"
and use those stock grade rca's you surely have lying around.

The homebrew interconnects are required because the 'preamp' is all
XLR, due to the fact that RCA connectors suck harder than a
hundred-dollar hooker. The Krell is useful as a reference, because if
I sold it, then brain-dead clowns like you would say that I only say
the things I do because I've never heard a decent amp. Besides, I like
the brutal *look* of that big mother****er! :-)

They all sound the saameee. Wire is WIIIiiiiiiiiIIreeee!

Well, at least you got *something* right! OTOH, some cable
constructions are more resistant than others to RFI. Having said that,
I use standard 'studio grade' screened twisted pair at around a buck a
foot for my TV sound system, where the levels of RFI are much higher
than around my main music system. So yup, wire is wire.

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering