"Keith G" wrote in message
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"dezza" wrote


Yes, you are right about the horse**** and many
magazines are full of it.
I've NEVER heard a difference between any cd player or
dvd player. I have 3 different receivers that all sound
exactly the same, no difference whatsoever and I believe
the same goes for ALL other amps that are built without
serious design flaws



Absolutely - *blameless audio*!!

A 'done deal' for a couple of decades now and perfectly
OK if you are only interested in reproducing a signal
with the lowest distortion/colouration possible and we
can all do that, but it's a different story if you want
your kit to *make music* - then you got to get into the
murky world of valves (IMO) and no two amps will really
sound the same!!

Depends on how you define "make music". Since I listen to a lot of live
music with no interveneing electronics at all, I find the sort processed
sound that "they all sound different" tube amps offer to be a little
lacking. Maybe OK as MI amps, but they have no place in a modern system
designed for the best possible reproduction.

It get worse when you venture further into vinyl - when
the cart will also have a profound effect on the sound,
as will the phono stage (to a lesser extent)....

That's one reason why "It all sounds different" bigots love vinyl. It really
does all sound different unless you pay a lot of attention to detail, and
then a lot of it still does sound different. Vinyl suffers from comparison
with modern systems, because all accurate systems sound the same, and as a
rule vinyl-based systems don't.

Then we all got the problem of speakers - the last word
in any system and where it will all fall down badly, if
you get it wrong....

Count on Keith, he'll muck around in the weeds of urban myth and audio
legend, so that when he finally gets one thing right, you know for sure that
it was an accident... ;-)