once someone has already hitched their wagon to the cable myths, they're almost completely intractable. But the work done here and other places has successfully punctured those myths for a generation of new consumers. It's beautiful.
For me it was being introduced to a set of bubble packed fancy interconnects by a salesman/friend. He started to go into his line but when he noticed the look I was giving him his voice kind of trailed off. We never talked about it again.I think when high end power cables arrived, that was a wtf moment when I realised the whole genre had” jumped the shark” .
And I started to back track trough old magazines etc , late seventies where not to bad ads where about thd and performant Japanese hifi . A couple years later it was British stuff made by a man in a shed that bent two pieces of sheet metal and made for example sugden a20
Wow 3200 funti for simple 2 way single-ended Class A amplifier...https://www.audiolounge.co.uk/sugden-a21-signature-amplifier/I think when high end power cables arrived, that was a wtf moment when I realised the whole genre had” jumped the shark” .
And I started to back track trough old magazines etc , late seventies where not to bad ads where about thd and performant Japanese hifi . A couple years later it was British stuff made by a man in a shed that bent two pieces of sheet metal and made for example sugden a20
It's basically crap
build solely on mythology of Class A
I have the previous version which I think looks neater. 2nd hand. The new price could be inflated if it's hand built in eur country.
That's how most people describe class A amplifiers.
But before the internet in my younger days, I was perfectly fine with obviously flawed speakers made of chipboard and a tweeter that looked like a woofer)))I have the previous version which I think looks neater. 2nd hand. The new price could be inflated if it's hand built in eur country.
They seem to have a slight sound to them. A little extra bass bloom or lower DF. A bit softer up top. Subtle stuff.
I wouldn't really buy a new one. I like the front panel design though I end up using other regular amps
As for audiophile stuff; we had some great older speakers in the house, of a competent brand (not that I knew back then). Never really had hifi magazines or other stuff like that, had a scoffy attitude towards squeaky midrangey speaker drivers but nothing more than young people things.
The first time I really investigated was when Monster cable was in a shop and I went to search how/why this speaker wire cost so much.
Fast forward and I've plenty of Monster cable (I guess people bought this stuff heaps). It's interesting because it's different. Haven't detected a sonic difference though
How was this conclusion reached?
Sorry, no idea what you're saying here.
but that is just broken and not a part of normal operation imo . I no longer consider such products .Probably by listening
Yes modern solid state amps doesn't have this problem, but the old one does with their high impedance, something that Erin talk and show difference that would cause such old amps in frequency response in almost every speaker that he review.That is the issue , normally performing amps does not have a sound , so there is no "matching" another myth i believed in the past .
..but it can be a self fulfilling prophecy , in the weird world of audiophilia of course you can get amps with "a sound" that also needs careful speaker impedance matching
By modern its probably from the 1980's DF above 50 was common even then in a Japanese amp . On the other hand ( also shown by Erin and Amir ) this problem has returned with simpler class D amps that suffers from high impedance in the treble not a general low DF so variable response in the higher octaves
The problem with 'listening to an amplifier' is that you have to hook it up to some loudspeakers to do that, and then you have an interaction which in some combinations can cause audible issues.
I'm not an acoustic engineer by any means,but I would rather say that magical "DF" is a myth, considering how much resistance(impedance) the coil has and how much it changes during speaker excursion.
yes I just picked a value
some amps has about 1000 in DF but as soon as you have speaker wires and crossover coils it's a meaningless spec .Yes I understand what you're talking about.The problem with 'listening to an amplifier' is that you have to hook it up to some loudspeakers to do that, and then you have an interaction which in some combinations can cause audible issues.
IMO this is where the myth that amplifiers have an intrinsic 'sound' or 'tone' originates. Ironically that does not survive subjective appraisal. Just this week I was reading a thread about Naim amplifiers and there was this exchange:
Search for any reasonably popular amplifier and you can find the same polarisation of subjective opinion on the 'sonic character' of that amplifier.
(Not all class A amps have high output impedance or low damping factor. I have several that don't).
If you define noise as a periodic air disturbance, then the falling tree makes a noise, without regard to the presence of any listener. If you define noise as a human auditory perception only, then no noise would be made by the troubled tree if no one was in tree's vicinity during its demise.
It has often been happening that people play instruments on a field and the cows or horses come and listen. That heavily suggests they can very well distinguish sound and noise, similar to how we do. The forest is, again, full of animals.
