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Hi, Thomas, Fair enough. I won't pursue the argument further.

Run out of patience? I must of misssed the long heated back-and-forth that had been taking place in this thread between Blumlien and I up until his 'not sold' comment. Your own comment about making 'delusional' claims is similarly salty to his. Now, I too have become salty over this rather...

Thomas, perhaps, I should clarify. I'm not making any absolute declarations about the mechanisms involved. Such declarations would, indeed, require rigorously researched and validated hard facts to count as scientific proof. However, I do recall the old truism that, absence of proof is not proof...

I've no issue with your reported experience. Ancecdotal experiences certainly vary, partly, as a good number of system variables are involved. My experience, unfortunately for me, was quite the opposite of yours. Which prompts me to elaborate on that experience just a bit. Warning: what follows...

Frankly, I'm really not concerned over whether you are sold or not at this stage of our interactions. You usually seem unnecessarily salty, looking to ridicule thinking which differs from you own. I've frequently encountered this attitude from, so called, objectivists over at diyaudio too. They...

Not what I suggested. I suggested that long term listening sometimes indicates there is more taking place than is indicated by the current specifications deemed as sufficient. As far as I'm concerned, this was clearly the case when CD was introduced, although I think it is much less true of CD...

To illustrate the specification issue I'm talking about, let's take the example of THD. Once, THD was given simply as a a single metric. A percentage number, that was presented as though it was all of the relvant information needed to assess the subjective impact of distortion on the sound of an...

I'm not suggesting that the perceived subjective physical reality of an audio system doesn't reliably correlate with it's objective physical reality. I'm suggesting that our present understanding of the relevant context (the full conditions under which each objective criteria matters, and to...

Isn't one of the logical conclusions of your argument that, all of our audio systems should be centered around nothing more capable than a mass market (read as: inexpensive) A/V reciever, or an integrated amplifier? Aren't the published technical specs. of such gear uniformly unimpeachable, or...

Upon re-reading his statement, I think that I at first read Toole as suggesting something he wasn't. That said, I know plenty of average people who prefer the sound of a system featuring a plumped up bass response, or unnaturally bright highs, over a flatter system. That's not what I was...

Toole's conclusion here doesn't necessarily follow. A possible different conclusion is that available loudspeaker performance metrics at the time didn't adequately inform listeners of what they would actually perceive, and that prospective purchasers only found out through listening experience...

I think that the issues with CD format have been implementation oriented, not theoretical. For quick example, the widespread use of chip-resident half-band digital filters in data converter chips, which permit a clear violation of Nyquist. In addition, low level converter linearity was not good...

Moncrieff is notoriously long winded. Harry Pearson of TAS fame used to deridingly refer to him as "J. Meter Pontiff". Some might say that was a case of the pot calling the kettle black. :) The fact that Moncrieff often builds an convincing verbal argument which seems to make intuitive sense...

One of the main issues when discussing this topic is the widespread conflation of the terms; balanced and differential. Differential refers to a signaling method. It has to do with whether the signal is processed (amplified, etc.) in anti-phase (opposing) halves or versions of itself. Balanced...

Yes, R17 and R27 appear intended to isolate the op-amp stage's output from being tasked with directly driving the power amp's input capacitance. However, I would expect to also see the feedback network's compensation cap. to then be connected in a short loop path from the op-amp output pin...

Wayne mentions that power supply decoupling is their other purpose. Such RC decoupling networks are commonly utilized for wideband isolatation of multi-stage tube preamp circuitry. If the bypass caps. are sufficiently sized, relative to the current swing amplitude and lowest signal frequency to...

Sony once was highly regarded for it's innovation, it's engineering, and it's manufacturing chops. However, I wonder if this remains true today.

If you're describing an interleaved shuffling between the two DAC chip outputs so to hide the settling artifacts from appearing at the box output, that will work. It does, however, require the alternating high-speed connecting and disconnecting of each DAC chip's analog output from the common...

I say, probably inaccurate, because the effect is rather consistent across most program content, giving a decidedly propulsive quality to everything. As such, it seems likely an coloration, although a pleasant one. As far as live music, some of it exhibits this driven quality, while much...

I've heard systems which subjectively do seem to possess an hard to describe 'driven' character. The sound frequently, though probably inaccurately, just seems to lock into a propulsive groove. This can be an highly satisfying effect with rock, pop, R&B, etc. The effect appears to be an...