No by defective I meant one day my Carver TFM-15 amplifier decided to not
turn on. To not miss a weekend of listening I inserted a Onkyo 2ch receiver
(6 mos old).

Carver is fixed. It was main power switch. Nothing to effect sound quality.
Digi-Key catalog and soldering iron fixed problem.

These are 2 mid-fi SS components which have quite different overall sound.

Have had numerous mid to higher end amplifiers in my system in years past.
Past ref speakers were NHT Super Ones and Paradigm Monitor 7 both which I
felt did a good job of revealing amplifier characteristics.

For one comparo, I traded brother's ADCOM GFA-545II for my Carver for a
month. Now that was a contrast.

I'm new to this forum...I am having a tough time believing that there are
intelligent audiophiles who believe SS amplifiers all have same subjective
sound.

"Bruce Abrams" wrote in message
news:3tibc.62314$JO3.38124@attbi_s04...
"Oceans 2K" wrote in message
...
wow

Even my very hi-fi ignorant wife heard a difference when I swapped out
my
defective amplifier with a mid-fi receiver.

The key here is that it was "defective". No one said all amps, broken or
otherwise, sound the same. The nominally competent qualifier exists
specifically to eliminate broken amps from the statement.

Not first time I did that either.

So for the 20 years I've been swapping and trading I've been hearing
things
!?! I need to see a shrink!

Depends on what you mean by hearing things.

*snip*