> Years ago I worked at Sherwood Labs in Chicago. A very
> interesting place I must say but that's material for a different
> reflector. We were working on our first solid state amplifier, the
> S-9000. Measured performance on the prototype was superior in every
> way to the tube amps we were producing at the time as well as our
> MacIntosh "lab standard" amp. Yet.......in A/B listening tests, the
> '9000 just did not sound as good as the tube amps on certain musical
> passages.
Perhaps the 9000 amplifier needed some distortion. Many people
actually like a little distortion in certain music passages.
Liking a certain "sound", however, is nothing like comparing dynamic
range, signal-to-noise ratios, or selectivity in a communications
system.73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com
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