Scott wrote:
On Mar 15, 6:31?am, Andrew Haley
wrote:
Scott wrote:
On Mar 14, 7:58?pm, Audio Empire wrote:
Ideally, an amplifier is defined as "a straight wire with gain".
I disagree with this ideal. This is an attempt to *define taste.*
Taste is personal. Ideals are personal. So you can't make this claim.
There's nothing personal about this, it's the definition of what an
ideal amplifier is. ?The high-end industry may well understand
something different, but that's their fault, not anyone else's. ?The
high-end industry abuses all manner of well-understood terms.
The idea of an ideal amplifier is well-understood as a term of art:
it's something you would be likely to learn in EE 101. ?See here for a
definition:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Eng...123/Lectures/A...
If you instead want to talk about "my ideal amplifier" as something
different, fine. ?But Mr. Empire is correct.
If you don't understand the basic fact that ideals are inherently
personal then there is nothing more to talk about. Your ideal
amplifier is one that does not audibly alter the input other than to
increase the amplitude. My ideal amplifer is the one that nets the
most life like and pleasing result in my system with a wide variety of
source material. Those are both *personal* ideals.
You're not really addressing my point. The ideal amplifier is a well-
understood thing. It's discussed very early in every EE course.
There is no dispute about ideal amplifiers in EE. It's not a matter
of anyone's personal ideals, it's a matter of a well-defined notion in
engineering.
A similar notion is the ideal beam, which is the one with the least
cross-sectional area (and hence requiring the least material) needed
to achieve a given section modulus. [1] Would you stand up and object
in class, saying "that's not *my* ideal beam! I like them bigger."
Maybe you would. But you'd be wrong.
There are some who share your ideals there are some who share
mine. There are others with their own ideals that are completely
different than either of us.
It is possible to be wrong about this. This isn't like preferring
Mahler to Beethoven.
But they are all personal ideals based on preferences and taste and
goals. Amplifiers that add euphonic colorations are
amplifiers. They are marketed as such and used as such. That's
becasue they are amplifiers. You can't wish them out of existance
by trying to alter the defenition of an amplifier.
I'm not. I'm trying to explain the ideal amplifier to you.
Andrew.
[1] Wikipedia