Here are the facts that Kuribo/ASR miss.
1. No amp has ever passed straight wire bypass testing.
2. All Purifi amps sound different.....based on their input stages, power supplies, wires used, connectors used, damping ,etc. etc.........yet, they will all measure about the same.....with all these different parts and execution. So, if you can change and improve the sound of an amp without affecting its distortion measurements.....this actually proves that measurements by themselves are really not that important to really KNOWING what an amp sounds like.
3. No one who has listened to a bunch of serious amps has ever declared a Purifi based amp is the best amp in the world.
4. The Benchmark amp also measures like ASR people want. It has its own sound (improved by using audiophile fuse in it) and again, no one would say it is state of the art that has listened to many high priced serious amps. On Jay's thread right now there is a guy who just listened to 4 different amps and the Benchmark was not the best.
5. Discrete op amps do not generally measure quite as good as integrated circuit op amps. VTV sells a version of their Purifi based amp that you can interchange various op amps on its input....including integrated circuit ones. The discrete ones just plain sound better and each brand of discrete op amp sounds different from every other one.
6. Static standard distortion measurements do NOT tell you how transparent (like a striaght wire with gain) an amp is. This fact alone does not resonate with measurement obsessed people. The only way to know how transparent an amp is......is to listen to it. Listening rules....measurements are just a mild indicator of something....nothing else.
Here is another factoid. You cannot change anyones addiction by stating truth. In order to stop your addiction, you have to admit you are addicted......the ego does not like to be WRONG. I am sure Kuribo will fire back with his usual response. We have played this game before.
The dance of truth versus ignorance is an eternal dance. On every level there is truth......and on some level eveything is true. So, hopefully, we can speak our truth in peace without making someone else wrong. People are beautiful.....but sometimes we think and act out of alignment with our beauty. This is called "being human"......However, we are also divine and can re-align with our beauty at any moment......we make the call.....every breath we take can be filled with joy or whatever else you choose.....choose wisely my friends.
The mind is a "make wrong machine"........the heart is a "make beautiful kissy thang"
I send you all big wet kisses.
