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RE: N core

No one has to read between the lines with your claims of "straight wire with gain" and if it doesn't sound interesting then it must be that the other amps are adding "excitement" distortion. Hogwash.

You have your credo plastered all over this thread. You are ignoring completely the listening aspect of the whole thing for essentially a view of "if it measures great and sounds boring then there is something wrong with the listener who can't handle the truth".

How is it possible for you to understand someone who thinks a power amplifier should add excitement? I don't understand this even though I think reproduced music should often not sound boring (there are of course some boring recordings...often with way too much compression). Audible distortion, either tonally or temporally, is to be avoided. The key word there is audible. If an amp sounds boring with most of a persons record collection there is likely something wrong temporally that is caused by some aspect of that product's design. Why is that premise so hard for you to accept? Because you worship the static measurements? Read some research into the validity of those measurements by Cheever, Geddes and way back Crowhurst.

You seem to fail to realize that the listener is supreme not the oscilloscope and that low measured distortion does not guarantee good sound or "true" replication of the original signal. There have been several studies showing this can easily be the case. Geddes even found a slightly negative correlation between THD and listener preference. HOW you get rid of distortion matters just as much (or more) than the distortion itself. Your understanding of these things is very superficial.

I think it was Richard Heyser who said " "Perhaps more than any other discipline, audio engineering involves not only purely objective characterization but also subjective interpretations. It is the listening experience, that personal and most private sensation, which is the intended result of our labors in audio engineering. No technical measurement, however glorified with mathematics, can escape that fact."

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