FredA
Headphoneus Supremus
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There are people, many, who think audio-gd does great gears, including myself. We are authentic persons, without any agenda, just exchanging about a passion. As far as i am concerned anyway, can't speak for everyone. But i certainly appreciate the guys on this thread.People say all kinds of things. There are plenty of people say that Audio-gd is no good and I am sure there are people in this thread that say it is great. Which statement do we take as gospel to contrast against the measurements?
Listening impressions, or the measurements gospel. If measurements are not indicative of sound quality, then flush them down the drain. That's my policy.
But again, there is no reason why a line level signal fed to a 100k input load should exhibit any distorsion occuring because of an absence of feedback. In fact, i would argue the feedback design would cause more distorsion in that scenario. With headphones, that is another story most likely. But given the impedances involved, things should not be so bad (and mostly, don't forget how bad IMD is, as this should be null with a non feedback design). For that, i trust my ears. I have excellent hearing, thank God.
It's not everyone who has the hearing to tell apart good sound from bad sound. All they are left with are measurements. Contemplating the graphs, they are just thinking: "these curves look awesome. So glad i bought this gear". Same people who buy art but have no taste for it.