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All Amps Sound the Same....

A guy posted this on another forum:

"This is my other expensive hobby and while I agree with you about low end receivers, once you get to mid-priced (~$600-1000 street price) multichannel receivers you're into pretty good gear...Keep in mind that an amplifier sounds like an amplifier and changing brands should add or subtract nothing to/from the sound and that going up the food chain just adds power output or snob appeal to a separate amplifier...These days most audiophiles either use a good quality multichannel receiver alone or use a mid-priced multichannel receiver to drive their amps even for 2-channel."

Wow, where do they come up with this? Lack of experience?
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bighead63
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IMO comparing an amp to a mutlichannel AVR is not anywhere in the same area.

The statements the OP posted to me come from someone not very fimilar with the hobby like we are.

For instance it would be a tough day for an AVR to drive certain speakers and I think one would be asking themselves why does my AVR blow up when I choose to run a 2 ohm load on it?

The box stores like Dumb Buy and alike push AVR's as that is what most people go in looking for. Even HTIBs because someone can't even understand the difference between an AVR and a HTIB.

That and when people are listening to crap thru bose systems what would they know? They think they got the best out there due to name. Heck I even work with a kid who was a Bose store manager and tells me I'm stupid for buying audio like I do.

In the end, to each their own. I wish more people could wake up and hear what good SQ is like but then that would mean they would have to take the time to listen in such a busy world.
bighead63
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Isn't the ability to evoke an emotional response what distinguishes art from craftmenship?

and its different in every person. To someone maybe death metal brings back memories of a better time and brings one to tears while others think its noise. We also want that moment to sound to us the best it can.

I do not read an amp or study it based upon its numbers. I listen to it to form my opinion to see if its something I enjoy or something I don't. If you want to use math all the power to you. Numbers are numbers, my ears are what I use for music listening, I would rather trust them to pick the sound I like the best then reading about a number of paper.
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