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Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
Adrian #336438 01/31/11 10:14 PM
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Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
Ken.C #336440 01/31/11 10:21 PM
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Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
2x6spds #336464 02/01/11 02:20 AM
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Phil, you went 0 for 10; none of those are attributes of the amplification process.


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Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
JohnK #336497 02/01/11 06:23 AM
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Of course not John ... because your faith commands that an amplifier is a straight wire with gain without any quality or distinctiveness.

Such an amplifier as John imagines is an abstraction, an idealization. There never has been such an amplifier.


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Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
2x6spds #336511 02/01/11 02:43 PM
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If you believe everything in the signal path should put its own signature signal passing through it, you would say that.

Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
pmbuko #336545 02/01/11 07:02 PM
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Yes, of course, if you believe that all caps sound identical, and resistors and all thingamabobs are colorless and transparent, then the sum of thousands of entries, each of which equals zero, would be zero. You don't really believe none of these components adds any color, strangeness, upness, downess or flavor to the signal? You don't believe the arrangement, and architecture of the array of components add or detract anything from the signal? Really?

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Re: Receiver/Amplifier Reviews
2x6spds #336549 02/01/11 07:15 PM
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All those things measure as distortion or noise. A well designed amplifier, by definition, minimizes %THD+N to an undetectable amount when operated within its limits.


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ClubNeon #336560 02/01/11 08:58 PM
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pmbuko #336563 02/01/11 09:13 PM
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Was it rich and yet mellow at the same time? With a fat bottom and clear highs?


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Ken.C #336564 02/01/11 09:18 PM
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