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in article , George M. Middius at
wrote on 11/23/04 1:38 PM:
Jon Yaeger said:
What, exactly, is a "serious" audiophile?
The 'borg definition is somebody who worships "accuracy" as the sine qua
non for "serious" audio equipment. No other critierion has any value
because they are all subjective. "Accuracy" can be "measured". Praise God.
To me and my lunatic music-o-phile friends, in general, good tube designs
sound more open and realistic. Most SS amps, even "good" ones, sound
sterile to my ears . . . like pushing music through grains of sand.
The problem with this HERESY is that you are a DEVIL WORSHIPPER. Given™
that you can't proove™ you can hear a difference between an "accurate"
system and one of your apostasy-promoting tubed systems, you are obviously
afraid of science. LOt"S! ;-)
You assume that science can explain all things and that the measurements we
make of amplifiers can account for perceived, subjective aural differences.
In my own experience the connection isn't quite so clear. Maybe my
empirical senses are faulty and/or science hasn't yet quantified the stuff
that makes an amp sound "good."
In these and other matters, I dare say that the Galilean-Cartesian paradigm
ignores a whole lot of useful anecdotal data, and it is a functional useful
-- but not entirely comprehensive -- model for understanding reality.
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