Isn't the ability to evoke an emotional response what distinguishes art from craftmenship?
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?
"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?
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Isn't the ability to evoke an emotional response what distinguishes art from craftmenship? and its different in every person. To someone maybe death metal brings back memories of a better time and brings one to tears while others think its noise. We also want that moment to sound to us the best it can. I do not read an amp or study it based upon its numbers. I listen to it to form my opinion to see if its something I enjoy or something I don't. If you want to use math all the power to you. Numbers are numbers, my ears are what I use for music listening, I would rather trust them to pick the sound I like the best then reading about a number of paper. |
hi frogman: does all music have to evoke an emotional response ? i think some music is cerebral in nature. have you listened to bach's harpsichord music ? if do, what emotional response do you experience? there is some harpsichord music with intricate harmony which could stimulate the cerebrum. i think you are a bit dogmatic when you assume that all music evokes an emotional response. you are not taking into account differences among listeners as to how one may respond to music. |
Dogmatic? Talk about the lightbulb calling the tweeter bright! ;-) All kidding aside Mrtennis, you might find this article interesting reading; particularly the fourth paragraph. http://www.lafolia.com/archive/mrichter/mrichter200004wtc.html |
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