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In Reply to: Re: Good Response Soundmind. posted by Tre' on June 13, 2006 at 22:45:53:
"So if an amplifier sounds bad but measures good, it's good?"Amplifiers don't make any sound, they perform an electrical function in a sound system. Sound recording/reproduction systems sound accurate or inaccurate and the nature, degree, and source of their inaccuracy needs to be studied and determined. But if a sound system sounds inaccurate, it is foolish to look first at the elements which by every test devised perform their functional roles nearly perfectly when others don't even come close. Unless you can find a flaw in the test procedure or rationale behind the test, look for the source of the error elsewhere, such as in the recording or in the loudspeakers where it most likely is. There is much agreement that loudspeakers are the weakest link in the chain so if the object is to find an amplifier whose flaws are complimentary to a particular loudspeaker, you can spend your entire life looking for one and then when you buy another loudspeaker to connect it to, start looking all over again because the one you bought before has the wrong flaws. As for recordings, the variables are so great that when the editor of a famous consumer audio magazine who posts here said he equalizes his recording so precisely that they must be correct to within 0.1 db but when listening to recordings doesn't bother to try to equalize them because it is hopeless. Why then would you look to solve an accuracy problem at an amplifier which is doing its job? If this is just a matter of personal preference, then any amplifier is as good as any other because there is no independent standard or reference by which to judge any of them. And that is what the industry which makes them would like you as a consumer to believe. If you take that attitude, they will be able to constantly sell you an endless parade of them each one claiming to be more likeable than all of the others including their own. If on the other hand, you decide that there is an objective limit beyond which further improvement or change is of no subjective value, then once you have an amplifier which meets those criteria, there will never be a need to buy another one unless it fails and you decide not to repair it. That is this industry's worst nightmare, that everyone would see it that way. If it were so, their market and profits would evaporate.
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