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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    I guess we can call the above "The Gospel According To Amir" ;-) Here's what the rest of the world says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABX_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test As they say Amir: "Make My Day" ;-)
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    That's right Amir. You had your chance to criticize my statement and the best you could do was come up with a bunch of unsupported, self-serving assertions. You've now had a second chance, and still no joy. I notice that even though it is stupidly easy to do so, you have not quoted me and...
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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    Frequency response this poor is unlikely to be just a noisy tube:
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    At no point did I mention dual tones. At no point did I picture just dual tones. Anybody who can count to at least three can see that my tests contained far more than just dual tones. Just to remind you, here is one of my graphs: How many tones are there, Amir?
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    Proof by means of self-serving unsupported assertion is always easy to fault on general grounds. That's interesting. So I can put you down as absolutely denying the idea that music is just a kind of multitone? Actually there is, but in the face of fully-winded such self-serving denial...
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    Whether you know it or not you're asking me which product measurements I trust. I trust measurements of DACs and amps more than I trust the measurements of speakers. Have I bought speakers after looking at just their measurements? Yes. Seems pretty silly to me. Of course its revealed truth...
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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    (1) Because he doesn't trust the gear. Frankly the gear used to be pretty limited and not trusting it thoroughly was a pretty good idea. (2) Because he doesn't trust his ability to exploit the gear, given that it is now generally pretty trustworthy. The counterpoint is that many of the...
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    Since it is essentially a law of physics, every valid measurement backs it up. I have done the work many times. It just takes time and work. I guess there may have been a serious omission in published tests. People haven't made a big point publishing the difference in power taken from the...
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    No we are not. We are talking about a general field of study and a profession. That field is Engineering which is hugely broad. The failings of specific individuals in this field is another matter. Now that is true, and I've seen the same many times and I have lamented about it on various...
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    Objectivists - what might be wrong with this label/viewpoint!!

    One of the classic ways to show how perceptual coders trash audio signals is to measure their performance with multitones. Multitones are a closer simulation of music than small numbers of pure tones. They are a test tone that people have been trying to popularize in modern audio measurements...
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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    Z5U caps are well known to not be legitimate for use in the signal path, and inspection of quality gear, even low end mid fi, generally finds them only being used as power bypass capacitors which is far, far less likely to cause audible problems. The audible problems with these parts (when...
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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    They aren't. They are simply one means of many to evaluate objects. That is correct. I've never heard of anybody design some piece of audio gear or a system and not listen to it at number of times during the project and once it was complete. This is certainly true of my own work, and I am...
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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    Please send me your cables. Here is my address: Arnold B. Krueger, 1600 Prestwick Road, Grosse Pointe Woods MI 48236. I am a well known objectivist and I will listen to them and post my reactions.
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    Harshness – What causes it? What relieves it?

    Typical placebophile subjectivist conceit - they all seem to believe that objectivists don't listen. In fact the people who do DBTs are dedicated to just listening and not being distracted by non-audible influences. One could wish... ;-)
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