[time-nuts] Oh dear

[DaveH]

These people are amazing.

They refuse to do any kind of double-blind A/B testing.

My favorite thing is that they are trying to extract the maximum "fidelity"
from an album or CD that was recorded in a studio with little or no AC power
conditioning, whose recording consoles were wired with the cheapest solid
and stranded copper wire and whose monitor speakers were probably a pair of
cheap Yamaha NS-10's (if you can make something sound good on an NS-10, it
will sound good on anything).

They claim to like the "warm" sound of their tube equipment but all they are
doing is getting second-order distortion from running their tubes into a
non-linear region. Tubes distort based on octaves and the distortion product
is pleasant.  Transistors distort on odd-order harmonics --  3rds, 5ths,
etc... And this sounds very clangerous.  FETs are even order and so are
often used for audiophile power amplification.

The phrase "Placebo Effect" was coined for a reason.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of J. Forster
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 7:49 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Oh dear
> 
> For the 'Golden Ear' crowd....
> 
> An Audiophool and his money are easily parted by a good sales pitch.
> 
> The same suckers buy $250,000 turntables and solid silver 
> speaker wires.
> 
> YMMV,
> 
> -John
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