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RE: Do you have any specific examples to bolster your generalizations?

First, who are you?

Some people think that some components using tubes sound more like music than some other components using only SS. Tubes usually have more measured distortion than SS components.

Some people think that some vinyl sounds more like music than digital. Vinyl clearly has more measured distortion.

Some people, and designers, think that components with no, or very low level, feed-back sounds more like music than components with high levels of feed-back which will always have lower levels of measured distortion. High levels of feedback yielding very low distortion produces sound that is threadbare and uninteresting. Its adherents will call it "clean" and think they have reached Nervana. But it is not music.

By "music" I mean unamplified instruments in real space.

Which is to say, that if your measured distortion doesn't correspond with what you hear, you're measuring the wrong thing. And that's the problem with Amir. He measures, but he doesn't listen. He's always measuring the wrong thing.

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