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A further matter for consideration...

Posted by RGA (R) on August 8, 2007 at 04:19:37

In Reply to: RE: Peter Van Wellinsward (sp?) of Stereophile owns the AN E... posted by limono on August 7, 2007 at 22:32:52:

"...and the factory of 50 yet they produce the best speakers, the best amps, preamps, transformers, cables,passive parts (caps resitors ) also the best turntables , cd-players and dacs. Quite an achievement I mean I'm about to pray to P.Q too..."

First I think you're making the wrong assumption. A stereo system is ONE creation. Getting source material to the ears. The fact that many OTHER companies only make CD players is not exactly helpful - you have no idea what their "belief is" about sound quality.

If I have an all AN system and I put in a different amp could it be better? Yes. If I put an AN piece in some other system could it be worse? - yes. In both cases it depends upon who is listening to it.

But basic logic dictates that mixing different technologies, with varying levels of know how, by makers with different beliefs about how a stereo system should behave is far less likely to be "good" than a system that is designed from beginning to end.


As for the names that mean nothing - then why does JA's name carry weight? He is incredibly inconsistent - first he supports the science then goes against it. He states that measurements don't correlate with sound but he will condemn products that don't measure well (even though they don't negatively correlate with the audition). This begs the question - if no one can hear the problem then it does not exist - and so whatever the measurement indicates is not indicate any sort of practical truth.

I bring up Colloms because he is so obviously more of an expert in the field than JA is and the improper measurements that JA put to paper is one obvious truth to the matter.

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