Bromo wrote:
On 4/23/04 1:09 PM, in article G5cic.8777$cF6.400786@attbi_s04, "Stewart
Pinkerton" wrote:

On 22 Apr 2004 23:55:15 GMT, Bromo wrote:

Richard has a standing $10,000 challenge to anyone about amp sound. He'll
put
up $10k of his own money to anyone who can validate he can "hear" his own
amplifier compared to one that Richard has. The connditions are
blind/switched
and Richard gets to equalize his amplifier (this avoids the ringers that
have
been intentionally changed.)

How about getting some Magnepan 20.1's as the speaker? I am sure that the
differences between low and high power amps would be in sharp relief with
that one, eh?

The amps are required to operate *below* clipping. No one is
suggesting that you can't hear differences due to one amp running out
of power.

Realisticqlly an amp running out of power is the main reason one would her
distortion vs. another amp. Given the power requirements across the
frequency band would reveal the differences in the amps -- the challenge is
a false challenge, then!

So you think any two amps with similar output power measurements would
sound the same? Works for me!

On the other hand, the high-enders' position is that there is something
magical about the sound of expensive amps that cannot be quantized via
measurements. That's what the challenge attempts to debunk.

So, in your opinion, why would anyone buy a $10K 100W amp, when there
are other 100W amps with low distortion available for $1K?


If you remove all possible differentiators between amps, then the challenge
is no challenge but some sort of 'chump' bet.

There are other differentiators like price, the pedigree of the amp,
etc., that are not removed at all by this challenge.