Re: Do all amplifiers sound the same?

c. leeds <cleeds@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Steven Sullivan wrote:

> > In fact I rarely audition gear;... any such 
> > auditions are prone to sighted bias effect. 

> It's a pity to forsake listening entirely simply because a dubious 
> result is possible.

> > I put as much or more effort into speaker placement and room
treatment. It 
> > stands to both reason and practice that choice of loudspeaker, and 
> > attention to room conditions, makes *BY FAR* the most difference in
sound 
> > quality. It really is just that simple, once you jettison all the
nonsense 
> > promulgated by audiophile culture.

> You don't cite an example, so I don't know what "nonsense" you're 
> talking about. 

By the way, Curtis, 'nonsense' would include neary every 'review' ever
published
in the audio press, or on the interwebs, regarding the 'sound' of
different
audio cables. Add to that the numerous reviews claiming striking , even
soul-changing
differences between amplifiers and disc players.  Not to mention the
'effects' of 
risible 'tweaks' such as the 'LP demagnetizer' touted by your fellow
vinylphile Michael 
Fremer, or the 'Intelligent Chip' that has so excited certain excitable
parties on Audio 
Asylum. Or, hell, just page through the gear catalogs of Elusive Disc or
Music Direct

This 'please provide examples' business can only be coyness on your part. 
Speaking of 
certainties, RAHE and rec.audio.* veterans such as yourself are
*certainly* well-aware of, and 
usually conversant in, the rhetoric of audiophile culture.

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-S 
"As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy, 
metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason