I will likely do AB testing with more expensive components in the future.
I want it known I am not trying to bite anyone's heads off, this conversation will remain civil from my end. Kudos to you Levi, you keep your cool and that is very admirable.
Hi seth,my post may not have came across to the point i was trying to make concerning how some people hear differences & others cant,im popping pain killers like anna nicole for this back injury i have so im sure i screwed my last post up from being all loopy.
The point i was trying to make was about listening experience with a system,,im also not equating listening experience to intelligence,im talking about a dedicated 2 channel system,in a fixed location in a dedicated listening room where nothing changes,the experience i describe only comes from having all the variables stay constant for a long time so you know every nuance of sound from the rig & know how each artist should sound on it every time you use the system.
When you have a system set up like this for long periods of time you get so used to the sound that you can tell if your wife moved a speaker a half inch,you cant pin point it right away but you hear something different,in my case i would be sitting there thinking damm,whats up with this,then i'd notice the carpet & see that she vaccumed my room,id look at the speaker placement & sure enough she moved one & did not put it back exactly.
In another case i kept thinking something was off in my room or system,i looked at everything in sight,still couldnt figure it out but i knew the sound was off,this went on for a few days until one day when i was polishing the speakers i decided to check all the drivers,all woofers sounded perfect,all mids sounded perfect,all tweeters sounded perfect,man was i pissed,then i remembered an old trick for checking tweeters.
I took a styrafoam cup & cut the bottom out of it,put one side to my ear & the other side to a tweeter,i went through most of the tweeters in the array until i hit one that had no sound,walla
i found it
,with my line array's having a total of 46 tweeters in them i could hear the 1 bad tweeter,not from being golden eared but from being so accustomed to the sound from the system.
I have also on several occasions used 2 amplifiers set up on an a/b switcher hooked direct to the cd player with a spectrum analizer mic'ed in my listening position,when switching between the 2 amps differences in sound will show up on the screen.
Reasons like this are why i have always atributied hearing differences in amps to dedicated 2 channel systems with no sub.
Im also not saying that HT sucks but i do say that hearing differences in amps in ht are harder for many reasons,most pepole have powered subs meaning only the easiest part of the signal is being ran from the main amp,also sound is comming from every where,mains in front,rears behind the head & a sub in the corner,lots of stuff going on at once.
Even if a guy shuts down the surround,subwoofer,sets xover to full range & only runs his mains this is not the sound he is accustomed to so differences in the 2 amps are harder to hear.
Expense of the amps has little to do with hearing differences either,i want to be clear that nobody needs to buy a krell or a mac to hear a difference,if your 2 channel rig is set up long enough you can use a behringer a500 against a $300 qsc amp.
Of all the reasons i listed as being why i can hear differences in amps most other people who also hear differences would agree that most of these factors are important in discovering differences.
Also keep in mind that everything i just said could be the result of the morphine working its magic
