roberttdid ... your ears tell you what you like, and I honestly believe no one really
questions that ... Plenty of people here challenge audiophile preferences, which some measurementalists will explain away as "delusion," "tin-foil hat," insanity," and so on.
Where the tensions rise, is when audiophiles assume that
because they "like" something, that it must be more accurate ...
They will go so far as to make up technical claims, about things they
have almost no knowledge about, then defend those claims with passion
and vitriol ...
Lotsa measurementalists here do the same thing, then add to the vitriol with demands for scientific double-blind testing and on and on and on and on. There are plenty of people here who "make up technical claims" to support their beliefs - no side has an exclusive on that.
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After all the engineering and science is embedded into Audio Research Amps, they leave the final say so to Audiophiles who don't even know Ohms law; why is that?
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It is science and engineering and Audio Research that crafts the sound YOU like, just like Pass crafts their amps to behave a certain way. It's not guess work. They tune the exact presentation with listener reviews, but it is engineering that guides that process.
Besides it's fun to talk tech and trigger geoffkait. He really hates it when he is not the smartest person in the room and he can't get away with his usual mumbo-jumbo about scattered light and pet audio rocks. I think that is why is so angry all the time.
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roberttdid,
"This is why Bob Carver was able to modify a somewhat low cost amplifier to be sonically indistinguishable from an expensive amplifier. He matched the transfer functions of the two amplifiers with the real speaker loads."
A seminal moment in the history of high end audio.
Many, much like Dr Zaius in the celebrated 1968 classic Planet of the Apes movie, would wish they could bury any evidence of this (and much more) so as to not disturb the paradigm that is in their interest to push. |
Carver supposedly replicated a tube amplifier using a solid state amplifier. If you believe that one I’ve got some swamp land to sell you. At least get the story straight.
I see roberttdid/roberttcan/atdavid/whoever is still stalking and trolling me. Welcome to my stable, Mr. Smarty Pants 👖 |
