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In Reply to: My components at home listed here posted by Richard BassNut Greene on March 18, 2005 at 12:10:10:
I am attempting to reconcile my own experiences with your observations. I've found very significant sound differences between mid-fi amplifiers (very inexpensive receivers) and bottom end hi-fi amps (Rotel, ARCAM, NAD, etc). But I have never heard a significant difference between hi-fi amps (the differences I have heard are probably psychological or room acoustic related). Your statement was an absolute: that there is NEVER a difference between amps, meaning that a bottom of the line best buy boom box amplification section would sound the same as a Jeff Rowland special.I'm attempting to bound your absolute statement in to a more reasonable real world statement. Certainly ALL amps can't sound the same because some amps (broken ones) operate with extreme distortion or non-linear frequency responses. As an example consider using a guitar amp heavily driven to the point of distortion and compare that to a solid state amp that's not distorting. Surely one would hear a difference between those two amps in DBT. So some amps must sound different, but which ones?
If your assertion is that all hi-fi amps sound the same I find your statement to be believable because it roughly matches my experience. If your statement is that a Yorx receiver sounds the same as a McIntosh tube amp then my experience doesn't match yours.
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Follow Ups
- You don't understand my intent behind the question - Chris_F 04:42:04 03/19/05 (1)
- You misquote me and then wonder why I don't respond? - Richard BassNut Greene 11:05:57 03/21/05 (0)
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