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Chris Johnson
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In article ,
(Stewart Pinkerton) wrote:
Alternatively, and more rationally, one might say that the true 'high
end' lies in speakers and in room architecture, since the electronics
end seems to have pretty well peaked, with only features and styling
to differentiate good-quality players and amps. Cable of course, is
just cable.
It's a bit of a problem if 'subjectivists' are obligated to qualify
their statements with "gee, I could be wrong" but 'objectivists' get to
make unqualified general statements like this.
After all, it's not even true- if you assume no possible interaction
with the amp and the speaker load, you could say that, but that's not
real-world! I might suggest the qualifier "if you limit your amplifier
choices exclusively to ones that don't have weird ill-behaved
interactions with unusual loads". To you that may be a given, but
there's no reason to assume such weird and ill-designed amplifiers don't
produce euphonic effects for some. ANY divergence from ideal accuracy is
a distortion, even divergences in the nature of 'making bad recordings
sound nice' or 'making limited recordings sound more like they're in an
acoustic space'.
Once you're dealing with audio voodoo of that nature, anything's fair
game, and it could well be that the amp you like best is ill-behaved and
subject to interactions with other components, even if it 'should not'.
It's a double-bind (NOT 'blind'
) because if you go to the
well-behaved amplifiers, you could be losing some particular alteration
of the sound that translates it better to your environment in practice.
None of us live in anechoic chambers or listen to test tones for fun...
Chris Johnson
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