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"George M. Middius" cmndr [underscore] george [at] comcast [dot] net
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Robert Morein said:

I brought a Nakamichi TA-4A over to a friend's house for one of our
frequent
amplifier shootouts. This receiver is considered by many purists to be
the
best two channel receiver ever made. The amplifier section is a Nelson
Pass
Stasis design.
Up against it was a Plinius basic amp. Both amplifiers are rated at 100
wpc
into 8 ohms.

Both amplifiers had distinct signatures that were plain as day, and
distinguishable independent of volume level. This was apparent to both
of
us.
I wonder what an ABXer would say, if he were present, sans test gear.

Would he deny the experience? Would he put his head in the sand?

Most likely they would want to measure the Fr and all other factors known
to cause things to be easily identified.

Of course there would naturally be a call to repeat the comaprisons with
some sort of DBT.


aBxism fanatics are not allowed to be in the same room with audio gear of
that quality.

If that were true, most of what is considered quality audio gear would
never exist.

If you forced one of Them into proximity, its (the borg's)
protection circuit would kick in, forcing it to shut down and requiring a
full system reboot.


Still haven't gotten the fact that ABX and other DBT protocols are why
some of the current gear sounds as good as it does?


Stop contradicting yourself. If some gear sounds as good as it does, it
means
that the rest, i.e., most others does not sound quite as good as that. I
thought all alnong you have
been boringly telling us almost all ss gear sounds the same.
Tell us about this 'some' gear that sounds as good as it does.
And tell us about
all the ss non SET gear that does not sound quite sa good.
I will make it easy for you. No need to listen, you can talk from the spec
sheets!