"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Robert Morein" wrote in message


Arny has given some good advice.

Thank you.

He knows quite a few things.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, he thinks he knows more than he does, including a few
things that are inimical to this hobby, such as "all properly
operating amplifiers sound the same."

The claim that proven science such as "all properly operating amplifiers
sound the same." is harmful or unfriendly to the audio hobby would depend
on
how you define the audio hobby.

You are on record as an apparently satisfied user of QSC amplifiers:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...808ae3c755cd90

Since this amplifier has at best a very mediocre presentation, it indicates
that you have a hearing problem. To entrust resolution of the question "Do
all properly operating amplifiers sound the same?" to you is akin to study
of color perception by a colorblind scientist. All the alleged rigors of a
supposedly scientific method must not be in conflict with observations that
are plain to those who can hear them.

Rather than recapitulate, I refer you to
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...466aaeaab9eb28.

Psychologists have discovered that appreciation of music does not correlate
with IQ.
More generally rephrased, how much one enjoys an activity need not be
related to one's talent at it. I strongly suspect that something about your
ear-brain system is sufficiently unremarkable that many people outrank you
in acuity. Even if we suppose that you rank in the 80th percentile of
hearing perception, that leaves substantial numbers of individuals who may
detect and prefer qualities of which you are unaware.

If you were a perfect scientist, then, perhaps you would be able to surmount
your perceptual difficulties with scientific rigor. In reality, few people
are perfect scientists. Some are good, yet unbiased and uncertain. Others
are not so good, yet exhibit an undue confidence in their beliefs.
Unfortunately, you belong to this category.

If it's any consolation, you have lots of company.