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RE: Did you hear the Benchmark at it's best?

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In Reply to: RE: Did you hear the Benchmark at it's best? posted by Don Till on October 28, 2009 at 08:21:58

>My guess is that the majority, but not a vast majority, of hi end audio equipment is designed by ear and not by measurements. <

I'm going to go with "designed by measurements, fine tuned by ear".

One of the best sounding integrated amplifiers I ever experienced (within a reasonable budget) gave the user the ability to change the amount of negative feedback. The best measured setting gave the worst sonic performance and the worst measured setting gave me the most glorious sound imaginable. The whole concept of giving the user the choice was because the original, perfect measuring, design didn't sell because it sounded like crap. :)

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