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I think the reason…

Posted by David Aiken (A) on November 22, 2002 at 12:02:42

In Reply to: Synergy? posted by NEAR SOTA on November 22, 2002 at 09:32:04:

is simply that there are too many possible combinations for any single person ever to be able to get a handle on which combinations work best - there simply isn't enough time to be able to give every possible combination a trial, much less work out comparisons. Assume there are only 10 amps that would match with your speakers and only 10 speaker cables - that's still 100 different combinations to be tried and there's a lot more amps and speaker cables around than that so the real number of combinations available is probably of the order of half a million (say a thousand amps and 500 cables). Impossible to assess. We all make our choices partly on what is readily available to us in our own locations and that varies considerably from location to location.

Plus, as you pointed out, there are the differences in taste regarding sound that people have - about as many as there are people.

Manufacturers often provide some recommendations but they tend to be general and are intended as broad guidelines rather than specific "must do's". That's probably the best that can reasonably done unless the manufacturer is making everything and intending that the whole package be used as a unit.

David Aiken

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