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Lagonda

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Herd mentality involves the majority…not a fringe minority…now if you want to say we are a niche cult…well I guess that is a way to look at it but this implies religious or faith based overtones. The people I know who have gone down this road are amongst the most experienced audiophiles and live music lovers I know…and have tried virtually everything else.
You are just part of a cult worshipping the glowing bottles Brad ! ;)
 

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Doh! Where do you think the slang herd mentality comes from? You’re not that daft are you? You know about word origins, right? Are humans not animals? Anyway read the other post if you still don’t understand.
Do you think hot dogs are made from dogs?
 
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Analog Scott

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Do you mean power amps?
Please list some you feel sound the same.
First let’s be clear. Audibly transparent. Net result is they sound the same, no sonic character of their own. How many do you want? It’s most SS amps. Certainly my amps, the Sanders Magtech and Anthem M1s are audibly transparent. Do you want more?
 
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Do you think hot dogs are made from dogs?
Ok, do you didn’t read the other link and are just trying to be obnoxious.

This is how you avoid admitting you were wrong about a definition that was also used incorrectly by Andromeda earlier.
 

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First let’s be clear. Audibly transparent. Net result is they sound the same, no sonic character of their own. How many do you want? It’s most SS amps. Certainly my amps, the Sanders Magtech and Anthem M1s are audibly transparent. Do you want more?
I am sure they sound the same to you …enjoy those hot dogs made of dog at Disneyland.
 
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Analog Scott

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Ok, do you didn’t read the other link and are just trying to be obnoxious.

This is how you avoid admitting you were wrong about a definition that was also used incorrectly by Andromeda earlier.
No, this is how I make fun of the absurdity of it.
 

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First let’s be clear. Audibly transparent. Net result is they sound the same, no sonic character of their own. How many do you want? It’s most SS amps. Certainly my amps, the Sanders Magtech and Anthem M1s are audibly transparent. Do you want more?
Yes the more the merrier, how about Pass Labs or Boulder, are they audibly transparent.
 
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Back to the pissing contest. I’m sure they sound the same to you too and I’m willing to bet $10K on it.

Whoa, a little racism too. You are on a roll.
Racism? Which race of dog did I offend?

Your “offer” is not a real offer so stop pretending. Even if you were somehow qualified to run such a test, which is highly unlikely, No one in their right mind would allow you to run a test that you have a financial stake in. Your mental state is also in question because No one in their right mind flies to Switzerland with half a dozen large SS amps just to say “gotcha” to some random guy on a forum. It’s just a troll so that when I say no you can say I am a fake or whatever.
 
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First let’s be clear. Audibly transparent. Net result is they sound the same, no sonic character of their own. How many do you want? It’s most SS amps. Certainly my amps, the Sanders Magtech and Anthem M1s are audibly transparent. Do you want more?

Sorry to repeat, but I think this circularity problem needs to be resolved as a threshold matter before your challenge can proceed.

The objectivist crowd is going to say "if you think you heard a difference between two amps then one or both of the amps is not audibly transparent." The subjectivist crowd is going to say "we heard a difference between two transparent amps so the definition or the premise, or both, is flawed."

Two amplifiers can be sonically transparent and yet one can appear to be slightly more crystalline transparent than the other (for example, McIntosh solid-state versus Einstein OTL on Wilson Audio XVX in one comparison I heard). Amplifiers can be sonically transparent and, at the same time, they also can sound different in terms of dynamics, speed, tonal balance, tonal emphasis.

Merely declaring "audibly transparent" as the dispositive benchmark doesn't suffice.
 
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I think it's a religion not a cult. I don't worship; I make a joyful noise.
 
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But any amplifier will sound different in different rooms, different systems. In one room it might sound “transparent” to some or many people. Maybe, maybe not. Transparent is just a word, anyway, like “natural” or dimensionality” or “high resolution.”

“Words mean different things to different people.” - Bob Dylan
 
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Lagonda

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Back to the pissing contest. I’m sure they sound the same to you too and I’m willing to bet $10K on it.

Whoa, a little racism too. You are on a roll.
A little racist, but funny ! ;)
 

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