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RE: Grasping at straws

Posted by Ric Schultz (M) on October 24, 2020 at 01:26:45

In Reply to: RE: Grasping at straws posted by emailtim on October 23, 2020 at 16:13:45:

So, how do you know what is accurate? Did you straight wire bypass your power amp and found that it added no sound?.....by the way, that is possible to do. My friend was doing that back in the 1970s.

It is very hard to determine if a component is accurate.....including using mostly flawed double blind tests, etc. There is no true race course in high fidelity. In drag racing, yes. In audio racing it is all subjective. Every single interconnect sounds different (yes, hundreds of brands and they all sound different). So, which one is accurate. Only one can be. Are you the decider of accurate? ha ha ha.

I did not side step anything. I already told you that the 1612 soldered onto a circuit board sounds worse than a discrete op amp mounted on an adapter.....less is usually more.....but not always. Good luck with your "accurate" gear.

The only way to know which things are more pure or less pure is to do thousands of subtle listening tests.....which, I am sure, you do not do.

In the end, it is every man for himself.....since there is no real race course. We all know which dragster gets down the quarter mile the quickest. No one knows which wire (or whatever) is most accurate......sorry, it is all subjective as an infinite number of things change the sound that CANNOT be measured. That is the truth!

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