On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 01:49:13 -0000, "JustMe" wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 09:00:14 GMT, "Steve Batt"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:41:48 GMT, "Steve Batt"
wrote:

"JustMe" wrote in message
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If I were a recording artist, first and foremost I'd want those listening to
my music to be entertained, inspired & moved by it. The Audiolab doesn't do
that for me, the Alchemist does. For all its supposed colour, for all its
foibles, operational quirks - whatever you like - it is by any sensible
measure of what a hifi should be and do, better.

Only to *your* ears..............

Indeed - this is, by any sensible measure, what a hifi should do: sound
better to *my* ears. Whether *you* like it or not has no bearing on *my*
choice.

Absolutely - never suggested otherwise. But once you start using terms
like 'by any sensible measure', you're getting into dangerous OSAF
territory.

That's why a market full of different-sounding products exists: to cater for
all our different tastes.

Besides, how do you know that my ears don't have an imperfection (whose ears
are perfect anyway?) which counters my favourite amp's own imperfections (or
vice versa) and brings it into "straight-line"? For all you know, the 8000S
might sound terribly coloured to me, regardless of how a machine measures
it.

Nope, that can't happen, because you'd be using the same ears to
listen to a live performance.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering