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In Reply to: All this talk in subjective posted by wolfy62 on May 9, 2007 at 18:33:37:
What about tubes. 12AU7 is a 12AU7?
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I think listening is of major importance and have always done that before buying components. That has always been a major consideration for me when buying equipment. It just seems to me that we have taken the subjective criteria, actually the so called reviewers have done so, to the extreme, and have attempted to work harder at being Elmer Gantry than, oh, let's say Julian Hirsch. Remember that guy?
I just think we have gone overboard on the subjective and metaphysical side of things and need to be a little more grounded in how we evaluate things. That's all. I think the industry is taking advantage of a lot of people and has some of us chasing ghosts.
I have deleted my previous posts in fear that I was being too subjective. ;-)The term "musical" be one of those ghosts. I keep seeing that term and of course you always want something that is 'musical', right? That's the gig after all. Same goes for PRaT.
You have to do a lot of reading to replace actual listening to get close to a sense of what your are searching for. I think that terms like PRaT and 'musical' should be ignored and look for other indicators of what the reviewer/commentator/poster is talking about, matching that to a growing list of data. You have to look around and thru what someone reports. In other words, you have to sense what the guy means. The good thing about this palce is you get the chance to ask direct questions ...
and just by stats? so that would mean my 33 1/3 +1% speed table would be outside the perameters. But is has so much PRaT!
O.k. Fair enough. BTW, the Stereophile article referenced on this thread is worth checking out.
I'm just casting my vote for balance, sanity...and science.
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