In article , David Nebenzahl wrote:
Scott Dorsey spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

Maybe you missed the earlier post where someone gave some of the
published specs for this amp. One of them was 0.01% THD. If true, I
would think that would be plenty good enough for studio use, assuming
the other specs are on par with it.

These actually aren't such bad amplifiers, and they are better than a lot
of the stuff sold today as (ahem) monitor amps.

But full power THD specs don't tell you anything useful these days. In
fact, if you compare something like the Yamaha to a something like the
Aragon or Levinson amp with the same power rating, you'll find they sound
different and that a lot of this has to do with the lower output impedance
of the better amp as well as the coloration in the electronics.

On the other end of the scale, the Yamaha probably sounds a lot better
than an Alesis RA-100 for the same reasons.

Again with the "may sound different from other [studio] amps". I've got
to take exception to that as a sort-of audiophool belief.

By definition, if two amplifiers both have extremely low distortion,
they should "sound" approximately the same, right?

Right.
And of course, amps do not sound all by themselves.
Well sometimes they make funny noises.


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