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On 20 Oct 2003 21:06:41 GMT, (S888Wheel) wrote:

Have you ever compared his work to the work of others on the same recordings?
Do you know whether or not you like recordings mastered on such a system or
not? or do you think listening simply isn't the proper way to judge mastering
skills?

As ever, you are trying to deflect attention away from the key point.
Hoffman has certainly produced some good-sounding recordings. This has
*nothing* to do with his preference for SET amplification, indeed, his
self-contradictory comments regarding 'resolution' seem to indicate
that he is a pretty non-technical guy. It's rather like taking a car
mechanic's opinion about how to design a Formula 1 engine.

Frankly, when you look at his comments about why he uses tubes, I'd
expect his recordings to be pretty thin and bright to compensate for
that 'yummy' tube sound. Interesting that they're not. You don't
suppose that he actually masters on a completely different monitoring
system, do you? :-)
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