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Personalities again. Why not say something about audio?

Peter Aczel sometimes gets into personalities, too, but his main emphasis is on whether certain things are true or not. You, however, are explicitly making the topic things some people say about other people, which is not really an audio topic.

One also wonders who you are to speak on behalf of subjectivists. As well, so far, your main "objectivist" seems to be AJinFla, whom you take to be representative of "objectivists," whatever they may be asw you do not begin to define that. So, you are really attacking AJinFla rather than "objectivists" as a whole. Your diatribe really reduces to personal vendetta which you try to hide by generalizing it.

You propose that most subjectivists accept the following:

TG54
"There are measurements that correlate to everything we hear in audio components be it amps, wires, etc. However the typical measurements used today in audio don’t correlate with what we hear."

The trouble is that most rationalists accept that as well. jj said the same thing, for example. So there is nothing peculiar to subjectivists here.

The amp specifications you provide look to be very good, as far as they go. I wouldn't even consider it, however, without some indications as to what its power capabilities are!

Now, as for your questions. First of all, you as for a single parameter to define soundstage, imaging, resolution, and accuracy. It is much more complex than that. It takes an ensemble.

As for producing an illusion of a live performance, this seems to do a pretty good job. We could not manage a trip down to hear it at the time, but Wes Philips has a write up:

http://www.onhifi.com/features/20010615.htm

Second, soundstaging, imaging, and psychoacoustic realism are functions of the program materials, processing, speakers, and set up than they are functions of an amplifier. But I personally look to an amp to reproduce the signals input in amplified form so as to drive speakers. Some amplifiers, especially those with high output impedances, may benefit some speakers which need that.


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