You should've asked the same questions you've asked on this forum before.
"Are you ready to say how you selected your test subjects? Demographics? Randomization?
Did they have a chance to train on the equipment prior to testing?
Any positive controls?
Have you done any college coursework in sensory testing?
Have you studied any of the present-day academic sensory testing literature?"
So we have the thing that is expensive, has very low power, high hum and at best can sound similar as normal amplifier only in case that EQ for speaker impedance is used. So what is the point? Why such thing?
Would you care to recant the claim (shown below) you've made recently?
But the reviewer said
How can you not have spotted that in your listening Howie 😛
P.S. That review was of the time when I read stereophile and I remember being intrigued by the Infinity prelude speakers. They never made it to our shores though.
How can you not have spotted that in your listening Howie 😛
P.S. That review was of the time when I read stereophile and I remember being intrigued by the Infinity prelude speakers. They never made it to our shores though.
Pavel....pretend you are a person who is not an electrical engineer, this will be a tough one for you but try...now: You have a bunch of money to spend, which one would you rather watch while listening:
or:
OK, that may be beside the point. I do think there are people who prefer hearing a sweetened-up 2nd harmonic sound, not the original. To each their own. Some people buy famous paintings and poorly illuminate them but prefer the way that looks.
It occurs to me that we here are constantly confusing the production and reproduction of music. As someone who has spent a bit of time on the production end, I can tell you accuracy in electronics is paramount. Once the product gets to the consumer, they can do whatever they want with it and vendors are lined up to help them do just that. I can't call that wrong, but I have no interest in it from any other than an accuracy POV, but then again, like pretty much the rest of you we are not the usual consuming public.
Howie
hmm if I ever* go to a hifi show again maybe I should wear a T-shirt that says 'I am not your target market' 😀
*Nearly 30 years since my last one so not likely...
*Nearly 30 years since my last one so not likely...
Of course, now I trust the Lord of the Blue Screen only.
Only measurements tells the truth, all the rest are speculations and biases.
A 45 or a 300B DHT amplifier with poor measurements surely will sound bad, much worse than a Hypex amp with spectacular measurement graph.
I wonder why people continue buying and building tube amplifiers.
Maybe they have not understood that audio has evolved to Class D, Class A is only for cooking.
It depends on the product, there's a reason simple music is used to demonstrate the different sounds of high-end equipment, when it comes to reproducing complex music, accuracy becomes more important.
Well, I am sure there are more than a few people who read what I just said and conclude I am deaf as a doornail...we all support our belief systems in our own ways. I will say my audio electronics testing methodology has had a hand in the sound and/or production of more audiophile recordings out there than most people...so make your own conclusions...
Howie
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Hey Mark,
No, sorry this would have been around 1990, so it would have been one of Crown's H-bridge linear MacroTechs...
Howie
Not the level matched double blind listening test.
But now you are right back to subjective impression. 🙄
Why not ask them. It would help the marketing section of your audio business.
It seems like you need a quite stadium sound system and a big crowd sound system.