sounds like a you feel that all amplifiers sound the same,i was stating fact that although the 8077 was a good match to my paradigms. it ran out of stem when pushed and theirs a good chance there was something wrong with it cause it would shut down even under normal listening. theirs no bias here just my personal experience with this hobby. i have owned sunfire tg3 with bobs signature amp, emotiva xpa5 ,xpa2 and upa1, av 8801 with mm8077 ,mm9000 and now the rotel rmb 1585 ... they all have there own sound differences but i wont hold it against anybody is they cant here a difference when you Chang gear.
I don't "feel like" all amplifiers sound the same; I do "believe" all amplifiers sound the same when used within their design capability, assuming modern competent design, blah, blah, blah).
I "feel like" my system sounds different almost every time I listen to it! Most notably (and most easily repeated for me), I find it sounds cleaner and more detailed in the early morning than it does at the end of the day. I also find it sounds better after I have been anticipating getting home to listen to a song. So I "feel like" all amps sound different and even the same amp sounds different, although there is no apparent justification for the sound to be different.
However, I cannot bring myself to believe my perception is more accurate that logic (or measurement equipment). I assume that the music sounds better in the morning because I have a "fresh" set of ears (and anything else along the path from sound to perception). I assume the fact that music sounds better after I have been anticipating it is akin to the fact that food tastes better when I am hungry.
Music always sounds better when I am in a good mood! (though it helps improve my mood when I am not).
Those MacIntosh Monoblocks with the big blue meters will
always sound better than my XPA-2! But if you prevent me from knowing which is which in a blind test, all of a sudden, the difference is not so clear or repeatable (I have BTDT).
I believe you hear a difference, I just don't believe you are being honest with yourself about why.
Now, if we are talking defective amplifiers or amplifiers which are incapable of properly handling the load presented by the speakers (and clipping), we are talking about an entirely different topic, and I believe it is wrong to advise people on the "sound" of gear which is likely defective as if it were the inherent nature of that gear. In the case of defective gear, the differences are easily measured, and usually at a level expected to be audible (and would easily be repeatable in a blind test).
So, you can see my real issue is the idea that, through subjective observations, you are reliably detecting objective differences in sound which are not supported by objective measurement. There are far too many variables in the human psyche to assume none of them are influencing your perceptions.
