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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?
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bighead63
53 posts
 
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.
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
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.
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abucktwoeighty
1,079 posts
 
All people look the same, all crap smells the same, all cars drive the same, all people sense the same, all opinions are the same....just thought everyone should be reminded....
frogman
7,487 posts
 
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
mezmo
516 posts
 
I was about to say that of course they all sound the same -- right up until the moment you plug them in and start trying to reproduce recorded software with them -- but then it occurred to me that even at might not be entirely correct.....
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