I love this discussion.
Which would you rather hit with a sharp steep short transient, the Krell or the Cary?
Lemme guess.
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A beryllium neodymium tweet.
33kHz resonance - stops in a dime.
Or a slowish tweeter. Like a cloth or propylene dome. Which rings into next week when it's hit with the same spike.
Please pardon the misspellings and occassional insane word substitution I'm on an iPhone
> On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Carl Pultz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Stereophile has long had this schizophrenic aspect where the auditions are
> contradicted (or complimented) by the measurements. It is entertaining.
> Years ago, they ran a cover with the headline: "If one of these amplifiers
> is right, the other must be wrong." One amp was a huge, powerful Krell. The
> other was (IIRC) an 811-based Cary single-ended job that developed maybe 10
> watts. The Cary couldn't pass a symmetrical waveform; the Krell was
> virtually perfect on the bench. Both were declared to make their own brand
> of magic.
>
> The subjectivity of art doesn't rest well with the hard science of
> engineering. Professionals aren't immune to that dichotomy. If I did what
> Jamie does, I would certainly aim for his level of objective rigor.
> Microphones in an acoustic space, like phono cartridges and loudspeakers,
> are a whole different story, a blend of subjective/objective. At least we
> now have other elements of the signal chain that can be reliably objective,
> if that is the goal.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Cawley
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 7:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] a prime case of why subjective reviews of audio gear
> are USELESS
>
> From: Dave Cawley
> Dartmouth United Kingdom
>
>
>
> Hi Tom
>
> Rely to fixed (again), although it is really a server issue............
>
> I agree with all you say, especially the midnight part ! However some
> magazines do no testing at all. Image a car magazine not testing 0-60 and
> top speed ?
>
> Dave
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