Tks
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I'm not a die-hard measurements mean nothing type. But as I said earlier, I've been using this amp for months and it sounds fine to me. Without these measurements I never would have known... Maybe I have bad ears. Maybe the bad performance isn't audible. Maybe this. Maybe that.
Doesn't matter in the slightest if it sounds good to you, and you enjoy the operation and the device itself. We would never dissuade someone and tell them what they need to prefer. The thing that gets people fired up sometimes on this forum is when someone makes a statement like: "If something sounds good to me, then it is good intrinsically irrespective of what anyone, or anything else says to the contrary". Obviously they'll never say that to anyone's face, they'll just say "it sounds good to me, and it that's why it is good performing device, and anyone saying anything different has bad hearing, or doesn't know any better because they need to try it".
They have no frame of reference aside from their own ever changing power of perception. Of which could at any time shift, and placebo themselves into thinking one thing to another depending on the day, or situation. While measurement devices have only so much that could change about them that would lead them to spit out varying results. Lastly, measuring devices don't measure how much you'll enjoy something. They measure performance based on a set of metrics. They're just more tools that give people a better idea if this is something they may want out of a product. I always tell those lunatic subjectivists, to measure power output without using any machines. Lick your finger and touch a live part, and 'feel' how much power there is... literally, see how that works out since no machine could ever tell you anything.