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All Amps Sound the Same....

A guy posted this on another forum:

"This is my other expensive hobby and while I agree with you about low end receivers, once you get to mid-priced (~$600-1000 street price) multichannel receivers you're into pretty good gear...Keep in mind that an amplifier sounds like an amplifier and changing brands should add or subtract nothing to/from the sound and that going up the food chain just adds power output or snob appeal to a separate amplifier...These days most audiophiles either use a good quality multichannel receiver alone or use a mid-priced multichannel receiver to drive their amps even for 2-channel."

Wow, where do they come up with this? Lack of experience?
russ69
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russ69 OP
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I understand fully what MrTennis is saying but in audio the only tool we have is our hearing. It's not a perfect situation and two people can disagree about what they are hearing. That's basically why long term evaluation is relevant to our hobby and DBTs are not.
No piece of equipment has been able to deceive my senses in the long term. Yes the senses are unreliable for recording instantaneous events, I'll agree with this but the ears are good instruments and in this case the only relevant instrument.
mrtennis
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hi russ69:

you are right about ears as an instrument, so long as you acknowledge that what you hear does not constitute knowledge, and what you hear is an opinion.

what you hear or what i hear cannot be proven.

what one hears is neither true nor false. it is also not a fact.
mrtennis
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music is about the brain. there is plenty of music which is cerebral in nature, e.g., bach's well tempered clavier.

music need not induce an emotional response to be enjoyable.
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there.......
frogman
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****music need not induce an emotional response to be enjoyable.****

It is clear that when it comes to art, some of us live in different universes. Maybe that was a bit severe...different planets.

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