"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Many people cannot competently distinguish drastically flawed amps
from arguably excellent ones consistently. The fact is that when never
clipped and given semi-respectable bandpass and thd figures, the amp is
the least troublesome link in the chain in most cases.

Nonetheless, high end audio is like a finely made wrist watch, shotgun
or fountain pen: if you want excellence and are willing to pay for it
more power to you. I have a ridiculously expensive Mount Blanc fountain
pen: I can't economically justify owning it, but I do. It gives me
pleasure. I also own a lot of expensive pro mechanics and machinists
tools, electronic test equipment , a valve and slide trombone set of
concert quality, and a set of Italian skeet guns none of which get an
amount of use which justifies their "rent".

I worked hard for them. I like them. And I know many others feel the
same about their high end audio setup(s). Happiness is their only
justification.

Very open-minded.
But I believe I actually hear differences. Very significant ones.

And maybe you do, but with a blind level matched comparison it's just
specualtion.

Not in
every comparison, but many.
And some people cannot hear these things. There is no reason to assume
that
everyone has a brain with equal powers of discrimination.


If irony killed.


In most ways, I tend toward the utilitarian. 90% of my stuff is old Hafler
and Acoustat. I have a couple of Parasound HCA2200ii's. But there are
audio
bigots who, having racks full of workaday quality sound reinforcement
amps,
because they cannot hear the difference, proclaim the absurdity of what
they
are not constructed to hear. It is, in the audio realm, the inferior
dictating to the superior.


Easly testable with a blind level matched comparison, you don't have any of
those though, do you Bob?

My message to anyone reading is: do not listen to these people. On this
newsgroup, the principle advocates of dumbed-down audio are Arny Krueger
and
his feeble minded sidekick, Mike McKelvy, aka . These
people have no other purpose in life than to spoil your fun. It inflates
their egoes to imagine themselves as audio debunkers.

Wrong as usual Bob. We like to offer the truth as a defense against fraud,
nobody is bound to follow what we say, just as they can ignore your
unscientifc gibberish.

The reason these people get a listen is because there is plenty of fraud
in
audio.

Which you help perpetuate.


Unfortunately, Arny and his crew are like the French Terror; they
want to destroy everything they are not privileged by God to perceive.

I'm an atheist Bob.

If
Arny were color-blind, he would seek to ban the use of pigments. And for
some reason, the feeble-minded Mike McKelvy has latched onto Arny. McKelvy
is to Arny as __________ is to Hitler. Fill in the blank yourself; it
could
be Eichmann, Goebels, or any number of nazis that McKelvy has never heard
of, because he is dumb and ignorant of history. Indeed, for Mikey,
happiness
is just a beer away.

Uh-oh Hitler references automatically lose your argument.

Not that there was any truth to it, but you knew that. That's why we make
fun of you Bob, because you are a liar and think that people believe you
have some insight, when in truth, you're just as full of **** as Middius.
Just as clueless about audio, too.