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Post Subject: This applies to manufacturers alsoPosted by drdna on: 11/22/2006
When I think back to some of the products made over the years I realize that neither we nor the manufacturers really know what makes something sound good. Some of the early pieces made by (and I hope Roman forgives me here) Pass, Van den Hul, Conrad Johnson, Bruce Edgar, etc. were quite good. But with success comes the compulsion to build more expensive products, and I suppose one falls back on one's engineering background and specifications, ending up with a new product that isn't improved at all. Witness the Threshold amplifiers after Pass sold off the company in all their sterile astringent pinched glory. Horrible!
Sadly, it seems more often than not that a good sounding product is just a combination of things in a circuit design that balances perfectly, perhaps like the Melquiades, which I have plans to build when I save up the scratch. It is the faut of the designer when they believe that their novel circuit design theories have led them to good sound, when this may not be the case at all; it may be something else entirely. At least it seems that way to me in my audio experiments.
Just my two cents.
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