"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"TT" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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http://www.tom-morrow-land.com/tests/ampchall/index.htm
"Richard Clark is an audio professional. Like many
audiophiles, he originally believed the magazines and
marketing materials that different amplifier topologies
and components colored the sound in unique, clearly
audible ways. He later did experiments to quantify and
qualify these effects, and was surprised to find them
inaudible when volume and other factors were matched.
"His challenge is an offer of $10,000 of his own money
to anyone who could identify which of two amplifiers was
which, by listening only, under a set of rules that he
conceived to make sure they both measure "good enough"
and are set up the same. Reports are that thousands of
people have taken the test, and none has passed the
test. Nobody has been able to show an audible difference
between two amps under the test rules.
You "dunnit agin" Arny!!!!!
Yes, I enraged the usual list of suspects.
But at least you included the link this time. So I invite
you to read this little bit about the rules for the test?
Why not?
"All signal processing circuitry (e.g. bass boost,
filters) must be turned off, and if the amplifier still
exhibits nonlinear frequency response, an equalizer will
be set by Richard Clark and inserted inline with one of
the amps so that they both exhibit identical frequency
response. The listener can choose which amplifier gets
the equalizer"
What's wrong with that?
So the rules state "If any two amps have a different
frequency response then one will be made to match the
other"
Well Terry, I guess you don't know that frequency response variations are
the leading reason why amps sound different, and that frequency response
variations are trivial to adjust out.
Duh!!!! So now the test is knobbled before it starts!
Nope, it simply eliminates the possibility of someone skewing the test by
putting in a clearly measurable difference.
Perhaps Terry you don't know the subjectivist litany - that measurements
don't matter and that two amps that measure essentially the same can still
sound different.
So of course all the amps will sound the same
*BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN EQed TO BE THE SAME!"
Terry, does that mean that you think that measurements do matter and that
any two amplifiers that sound different of necessity must measure
different?
I am not going to debate the side issues here with you, as you (as per
usual) are trying to deflect the scrutiny of your selective posting away
from the crux of the matter.
You have made two posts, selectively edited, to support your zealotry and
you have been exposed both times as being wrong.
Just admit you have been caught out (again) and then you can return to
squabbling with other posters here.
TT