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RE: Spectral nt

You are like a kid who never got out of the Junior High of hifi. Your lack of sophistication with regard to listening puts you squarely in the "high power rocknroll" camp of "hifi" (I would call it more the loud and don't care what it sounds like crowd).

Read the essay by Nelson Pass, read Cheever, read Boyk and Sussmann and even read the work by Geddes, which has nothing to do with his speakers.

I find it almost comical that you can't realize that its not the amount but the kind and pattern of distortion that, at least in part, makes an amp good or not. You keep saying it measures low enough you can't hear it, but people do...consistently. You are the fool who has closed his mind because of what he "knows". I run into many silly people who think they "know" something because that is how they were trained (programmed?). A GOOD scientist starts with the open mind and the power of observation. Engineers are generally NOT good scientists and will follow "good" engineering practice because that is how they were trained. There are exceptions (Nelson, Ralph and Charles for example) but most are happy to stick to the mantra "If I make it low enough surely its inaudible...right??".

Even IF we were fooling ourselves, don't you find it strange that we consistently fool ourselves in only one direction? Its not like I made a conscious decision to say "Negative feedback and Class AB amps suck". I started with the usual suspects of amps (receivers from big name Japanese companies) and then some pro type amps because they had high power and low THD. But after HEARING better I drifted towards better sound because I wanted realistic sound and not just loud sound.

THat is how I eventually arrived at these criteria. Try them out and borrow or demo amps that meet them and see if they don't sound better. I dare you!!!!!

I have been through all the great measuring, bad sounding amps I ever care to hear so I won't go back there again to the land of sound but no music.


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