In article , JustMe
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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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.

What about the view that some of us don't really want the *hi fi* to
'sound' of anything - just the music? :-)

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.

Alternatively, what about the possibility that you could conclude that your
*ears* sound 'coloured' on the basis of the above since they would
presumably have the same effect when you listen to live music? :-)


OTOH, plenty of amps will *add* what sounds like extra 'depth' and
'punch', but is really just IMD and clipping. Bizarrely, a reduced
dynamic range often sounds more 'dynamic'. All radio station sound
engineers are well aware of this trick.

I have never found the dynamic range compression employed by many radio
stations to do anything more than suck the life, soul and energy out of
the music being transmitted - it sounds ****.

The compression applied by radio stations, etc, tends to be various forms
of 'gain riding' where the gain is altered as the music plays - sometimes
also altering the frequency response. However the compression applied by an
amp going into clipping would not behave like this as it would distort the
waveforms and introduce extra components, not just alter the gain. Hence
you can expect the two forms of 'compression' to not sound the same.

Slainte,

Jim

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