Originally posted by RebelMan
Well said. And I hope you noticed that I said the same thing. I'm old enough to remember when the major hi fi publications said nothing about the sound of amps in their reviews relying almost strictly on the measured performance. That was the before the term "High End" was coined.
J. Gordon Holt changed all that when he started Stereophile whch reported no measurements at all. His was a lone voice in the woods when he insisted that amps that measured the same sound different. He started a revolution that we are now living in. He deserves a shrine.
Pavell,
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about the measurements? If so, well, they look good, very good. And Stereophile's John Atkinson certainly knows how to run a correct test series. After all he is an electronics engineer and understands the testing protocol. I don't question that at all.
What we should all question is the correlation of the tests to the sound. And that's where our critical listening skills come into play. We must use the best test equipment available; OUR EARS. As Reb knows, this is my constant mantra which I keep pounding into thread after thread after thread......
Sparky
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