On 11 Feb 2006 05:59:19 -0800, "Andre Jute" wrote:


Andy Evans wrote:
Pinkerton advised:
find an amp which will drive them
adequately to the sound levels you enjoy. In your price bracket, they
do *not* all sound the same -

Would you say this is the same as saying
"amplifiers that sound different, sound different. Amplifiers that
sound the same sound the same"?
Much like "Yellow things are as yellow as other yellow things, but not
as yellow as red things"

Andy: I don't know why you waste your time. Pinkerton says all the time
that all competent amps sound the same, except when you corner him,
when he calls you a liar for holding him to account on account of the
much more expensive amp he brags of.

Just another typical Jute lie. I have *always* said that my Krell
sound just like any other competent amplifier. Your poorly designed
and crudely built rubbish is of course excluded from such a
description.

But this business about Pinkerton's Krell isn't merely about amps, it
is about psychology. Pinkerton belongs to the hunt, has told us he
thinks the anoraks should eat in the officers' mess, that his little
VW-base Audi is special, that his sport at college was fencing, that
his favourite watch is an IWC Ingenieur... There is much more of the
same; a pattern of a social climber is not difficult to distingush.

You would know all about social climbing Jute, but you'll never
actually *be* anything of note...................

BTW, my favourite watch is in fact the IWC Portuguese 5001, but that's
another matter.

Pinkerton's Krell isn't a case in sonics, it is a case study in an
inferiority complex, which should be right down your street as a
psychologist.

Unfortunately, Evans appears to be as incompetent a pshrink as he is
an engineer.................

The problem with being an electronics engineer, dull, and desirous of
being in good standing with one's peers, is that one is forced to
accept that one's amplifier cannot be better in any respect than the
next fellow's amplifier. They will all sound the same, so there can be
no difference.

Ah, but one of them may be of more elegant design, be cheaper to build
and more reliable than the other...........

Therefore Pinkerton must find another reason to make his
amplifier "special". That is his demand that it drive three ohm
speakers. Therefore he can justify an expensive Krell, at five times
the price of the common soundalike elcheapo high street amplifier Arny
Krueger advises. Problem of inferiority solved without breaching the
peer code of the "engineers".

Since I *own* 3-ohm speakers, that is hardly an unreasonable demand,
you Munchkin-minded Munchausen sufferer.

So Pinkerton is superior because his amp sounds the same but different
because it costs more. It's really very simple for someone like
Pinkerton who so constantly twists the truth into lies that he no
longer knows what the truth is.

No, I'm superior because I'm not you..................
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering