Oh and "within specs" quality amps usually behaves ok when driven close and slightly over their limits and still sounds "ok" not so well designed stuff can behave really bad .
In the early 90's I saw magazine actually measuring amps with a real speakers , they built a very robust speaker not intended for listening but it had typical anomalies that real world speakers have like phase and impedance shifts reverse EMF and such things , nonlinear coils in the xover . The best amps pretty much behaved as their specifications even if those where the typical 8 ohm resistive load specs, they did not change much with real speaker as load. Lesser amps did not reach thier specs in these kind of tests . What I want to say is that the old sayings that measurements don't tell the whole story is kind of true but not in the way many audiophile's think . But rather if we had the rigth kind of measurements against a common standard they could tell us much more that they actually do . Having the spec wars of the 80's in fresh memory:) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
