Against my better judgement but here goes,
Traded the Rotel when buying the current amp, was checked out and given a fair price for it,
Speakers involved were hand made 1/4 wave transmission lines with 2 6 1/2” scan speak woofers and a scan speak illuminator tweeter in a “2 1/2 way” MTM layout, Jantzen silver in oil crossover caps and foil in wax paper air cored inductors and Vishay resistors for the crossovers, which were built on 2 isolated boards and Bi wired, crossovers designed on freely available software and then fined tuned as a pair by ear and finally tested with Pink noise and a laptop based 3rd octave analyser in mono in room,
with the Mic at the preferred listening position, the last step done over a couple of months, I was in no hurry …
All up a two year project finally finished and enjoyed for over a year before the amp upgrade,
Now after all that do you think it’s likely I wouldn’t notice the obvious differences the new amp made ?
Placebo, level matching, Bias, poor auditory memory, A/B testing etc, etc…
I don’t think so ….
‘thumbs up” (just so I can give you ‘two of them’!)
(you know that doesn’t discount that others ‘more scientific‘ than you have already stated that your Rotel may have ‘worn out’. (must have gradually become ‘less than transparent’ so you never noticed..))
is the new amp slow? surely your creative brain hemisphere wants to use some english language descriptive words to ‘try to convey’ aspects of its’ sound?
Does its spec sheet acknowledge the (only) four measurements/aspects that are needed to hit ‘transparency’?
apologies op, but ‘sound science’ threads are so
needlessly hostile, which I can only assume is relating to the typical social skills I see with ‘stereotypical science types’, that ‘venting’ (either through laughter of mirth) is normal
for me.
Jester seems to know this (the ‘eyes‘ tell!)
Jester comes in, seems rationale, progresses the OPs query (even suggesting some potential ‘acceptable language terms’, and contributing that a uniform/agreed ‘common definitions‘ pool might benefit ‘everyone’.
so helpful, so polite, relatively patient, and able to expose the biggots for being totally unreasonable.
of course ‘well built’
transparent equipment can be bought for little money (if well researched) that sounds ‘no different’ to placebo/marketing influenced ‘more expensive’ parts.
the money clearly goes to aesthetics and heavy parts —we all like weight in our ‘good kit’-about the only thing that DOES correlate, at a high factorial, to great sound quality ‘through the decades’ (at least until THX chip amps came to market)
Jester, you beautiful stranger, you know that much of what you listed as going into your speakers would have many, in this ‘forum wing’, denounce you as mad…
shame;, cause I loved the style with which you moved.
my guess is things are about to go nuclear/toxic with regards to your comments… (popcorn ready)
doesn’t make sense to me as, in ANY OTHER thread, you would have progressed the OPs discussion and actually be the most useful contributor… (here you have become a ‘target’ that no doubt NEEDS educating)
do you know where your ‘detents’ are?
