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System synergies: Chaotic or predictable?
Credibility lost!  My god for what? Information is not one of the most if not the most central concept in science now? Ok perhaps it is because Rupert Sheldrake is a maverick? For the likes of Dawkins without doubt! But this is not my crowd... And... 
System synergies: Chaotic or predictable?
Interesting! This morphic field theory originates from Rupert Sheldrake...Now information is the most important concept in all science, then an information field is no more an impossible concept to deal with...  
System synergies: Chaotic or predictable?
The definition of words in a dictionary gives the prosaic, collectively accepted meanings of a word; the poetic sense of a word is not reducible to the prosaic sense in the dictionary it needs the context of the actual poem for his definition and ... 
System synergies: Chaotic or predictable?
It is a bit philosophically " naïve" to think that audio components has a sound of their own out of the continuous participating acoustic space of a room and that we can predict how they will sound without the specifics of any particular room and ... 
Hifi or no Hifi that is the question
Like poetry, music is « a felt change in consciousness», then it is way more than just dopamine or pleasure, music modify consciousness for the better...Good audio reproduction is only a means to this enlightenment...Music is the heart of silence. 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
Thanks sonetduo for these more than instructive and captivating remarks.. 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
My own experience is majority of people does not even know how good what they have sound like because of lack of cleaning methods for vibrations, room treatment,and clean electrical grid and also clean source...Without this 4 problems solved, at l... 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
That says a lot about mythic gear and sound...Thanks for the anecdote Jetter... 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
If you want to say that Sansui power supply are cheap you are wrong.... If you say now that some power supply from other amp are bigger...This is a truism... 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
Conclusion: you can refrain from generalization or exclude Sansui of yours...I forget to say that the Sansui AU 7700 I own is rated 55 watts at 8 or 4 ohms.... 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
By the way the reputation of Sansui was linked to his quality transformer... I copy that from internet :Background of Hashimoto Electric - Who is Hashimoto Electric?   Why?   Hashimoto Electric Co., Ltd, started its business in 1958 as an OEM t... 
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
If you read this description of the power supply for the Sansui you will correct your generalization:https://audio-database.com/SANSUI/amp/au-7700-e.htmlAnd the technician that repair mine measure at least 80 watts for this 55 watts amplifier...  
The Golden era of Japanese integrated amps, are we missing out?
Dont apply to the Sansui power supply... And probably to few others also...Impossible to generalize I think... 
Novel approach to tackle Speaker Vibrations?
I add 60 pounds of concrete slab on top of my speakers few years ago.... that help...they remain there...With a sanswiches of cork plate+bamboo plate+2 granite slabs+sorbothane in between that sandwiches isolate the speakers on my desk almost perf... 
what is it in audio that you dislike most?
People who swear by measuring rod, without knowing what the ears is truly, the most complex and subtle apparatus there is for perception of music, not only sound in a restricted acoustical sense of the terms...In this hobby my pleasure is listenin...