"Michael Scarpitti" wrote in message
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Stewart Pinkerton wrote in message
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On 31 Mar 2004 17:53:08 GMT, "Oceans 2K"
wrote:

Each solid-state amplifier has it's own sound when all other aspects
are
held equal.

No, they don't. It has been proven beyond reasonable doubt on many,
many occasions that all nominally competent amps sound the same, when
you don't *know* which one is connected.


This is a circular argument, Stewart. What are 'nominally competent
amps'? Ones that sound identical? If an amp sounds different, then is
it no longer a 'nominally competent amp'?

Mr. Nousaine defines nominally competent later in this thread as follows:
+/- 0.1 dB 100 to 10,000 Hz with less than 1% clipping and no measurable odd
stuff like a shut-down with protection into the speaker in question.

Building an amplifier that meets such a standard is no longer a major
engineering feat. The position is that any such amplifier driving a given
load will sound no different than any other such amplifier driving the same
load.

What you're arguing is that 'all nominally competent amps (amps that
sound the same) same sound the same'.

Nobody has circularly defined nominally competent as you claim. It is yet
another strawman argument that you have erected.