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In Reply to: RE: Herb's Verb posted by lord addleford on August 14, 2020 at 04:02:14
And obviously, lord addleford, I disagree with you. That phrase, like all the others, was carefully considered.Herb's writing requires no defense, from me or anyone else. The notion that transparency exists in audio, in the real world, as an absolute, strikes me as dubious. There are degrees of transparency, and deviations from transparency can have different flavors. The phrase could have been--well, phrased--to be more logically impervious, but if it was, it would have been less concise and far less expressive.
Stereophile, which after all is at its core a subjectivist audio magazine, employs the best writers in audio. I have no interest in turning them into robots.
Jim Austin, Editor
Stereophile
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I liked Herb's phrasing and I agree - the idea that absolute transparency exists is dubious. Moreover even if it did exist - it has to go through the ear/brain filtration system so the perception of that transparency will differ greatly from individual to individual.
This is true just looking at the reviewers on any and every review staff. if there was an absolute sound that everyone agreed upon then all reviewers would all own the exact same stereo. They do not.
Hi,
In the review of that amp Herb noticed a faint Lutron-dimmer type buzz.The sound he detected was coming from the amp in the transformer region.He used a stethoscope and presumed the transformer's coils were being amplified by the aluminum chassis and the diaphram of the 1920's wood floor.
He used this isolation base, the Harmonic Resolution Systems M#X 1719 AMG GR LF and the buzz was reduced to serene inaudibility.
I wished he explained the science behind the base and the amp.If that platform worked that well to silence a transformer hum I'm ordering one tonight.
I like the way Herb tests all sorts of equipment variations but in this review I think he spent more time on interconnect interaction with the amp than needed. Maybe a standard good quality interconnect should be the norm for testing.
It was a good review but left some questions for the customer.Here's one.
Does Bill build the boards or are they outsourced ? Thanks Mark K.
Which would certainly be a disadvantage to any magazine reviewing high end products.
Especially in an industry that has developed its own language to describe what the products it reviews "sound" like.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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