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In Reply to: RE: Probably not good enough to notice 0.0002% THD and IMD ;-) posted by AbeCollins on March 7, 2025 at 23:11:18:
Sorry to be unclear about that but I never owned the Freya. I did hear one once and was going by that and user reports in general.
The Freya is a very good tubed linestage, as with everything Schiit does. And its measurements are very good indeed. But, I become very familiar with what tubed linestages do, over 20 year or so, and don't really desire that sound signature anymore.
You misunderstood me as believing that measurements are everything. They are something - not everything. My ears and the experience I have are the "everything."
I'm not a fan of Audio Science Review because I find the fellow who runs it (who uses a woman as his avatar) to be rather annoying, and extremely naive in some ways.
During the period in which I actively and routinely evaluated gear, I owned, in total, something like $500K worth. I've had dozens of tubed preamps, including boutique pieces from the likes of Shindo, as well as at least 30 horribly-measuring SET amps. My humble opinion now: It's all tone controls.
Ten years ago, no one knew how to measure gear at all. The worse-sounding solid-state amps "measured well" because nobody was measuring high-order THD on peaks and crossover distortion. We're past that now, mostly.
The Purifi switching amp modules are, essentially, perfect. They measure it, *and sound it.*
So, my bliss now is a top-rate digital front end, a humble passive linestage, a good Purifi amp, and electrostatic speakers.
Still, audio will always be a subjective experience. And the best-sounding room at every show (IMHO), High Water sound, is all vinyl & SETs.
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- RE: Probably not good enough to notice 0.0002% THD and IMD ;-) - PaulF70 17:33:05 03/10/25 (2)
- RE: Probably not good enough to notice 0.0002% THD and IMD ;-) - PaulF70 19:35:32 03/12/25 (0)
- RE: Probably not good enough to notice 0.0002% THD and IMD ;-) - Inmate51 06:28:50 03/11/25 (0)
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