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In Reply to: I think there are a few. posted by Ralph on July 2, 2012 at 09:37:51:
Ralph said:
"Speed is an indication of bandwidth. Wide bandwidth means correct phase relationships in the audio passband (20Hz-20KHz)"
Really Ralph? I never would have guessed that! LOL!
Who do you think you're talking to - another clueless audiophool?
Once again, like Morricab and many others who have a clear agenda to sell, compared to the phase problems and distortion problems (of all types) produced by speakers in the audio chain, the distortion and phase problems produced by reasonably well built amplifiers are MINISCULE. No rational, reasonable person is going to hyerfocus on "hundredth's of a percent" of distortion from an amplifier when the loudspeakers the amps are connected to are generating distortion on the order of a few percent.
The claimed audible differences between tube and solid state amps is related to the interaction between the loudspeaker's impedance with that of the amplifier. In the case of a typical tube amp, this can be significant. Extremely wide bandwidth in the context of audio is a fool's game that I learned about 25 years ago. There is no audible advantage to an amp that has a half megahertz bandwidth. And the disadvantage is huge - high susceptibility to oscillation and self destruction when components age and their values shift.
I would challenge any of the audiophools participating in this or any other thread to put their money where their big fat mouths are. If you think you can hear the third, fourth, fifth, or even up to the 15th harmonic of a 1khz signal that is 60 db down from and masked by a moderately loud fundamental, I'd like to buy you an Atma-Sphere tube amp. If you can't, you can donate all of your system to a charity of my choosing - excepting the tube amp - you can keep that.
New Audiophool Rule:
TUBE AND ANTI FEEDBACK FANATICS PUT THE PSYCHO IN PSYCHO-ACOUSTICS.
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Follow Ups
- RE: I think there are a few. - villastrangiato 06:05:20 07/03/12 (17)
- RE: I think there are a few. - Ralph 10:00:07 07/03/12 (16)
- RE: I think there are a few. - villastrangiato 20:31:27 07/03/12 (15)
- harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - Ralph 11:13:05 07/04/12 (14)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 19:41:28 07/04/12 (13)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - Ralph 09:29:27 07/05/12 (3)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 19:57:03 07/05/12 (2)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - PaulF70 07:28:10 06/17/16 (0)
- The human ear is the most important thing in audio - Ralph 07:48:20 07/07/12 (0)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 01:13:20 07/05/12 (8)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 04:42:49 07/05/12 (7)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 14:21:54 07/05/12 (5)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 19:46:44 07/05/12 (4)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 00:36:34 07/06/12 (3)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - Sunya 07:02:50 07/06/12 (2)
- Correction - morricab 15:14:17 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 15:10:10 07/06/12 (0)
- If you are not willing to read the studies and work you will remain ignorant - Ralph 09:42:57 07/05/12 (0)
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