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| A listening test of two power amps "@surdo you have to measure voltage at the outputs using test tones." Ah, yes, that makes sense. Thanks | |
| A listening test of two power amps I didn’t realise that this would be such a contentious post! :-) Starting with the most recent: "What is the "real instrument" reference? Do you have an orchestra or maybe a jazz combo around? Maybe you live in an apartment above Carnegie Hall. I... | |
| A listening test of two power amps Ah, ok. How would you suggest? In any case, I think I got very close. Here are the stats on the two files: $ sox e.flac -n stats Overall Left Right DC offset -0.000000 -0.000000 -0.000000 Min level -0.368343 -0.368343 -0.368343 Max level 0.444594... | |
| A listening test of two power amps Ha ha, yes indeed! 😀 | |
| A listening test of two power amps But as I inferred in the 1st message, I will say what the amps are after a time, and hopefully after people share their thoughts on the two recordings. If the amps are known, people might play "guess the amp" and apply any prejudices they might ha... | |
| A listening test of two power amps I couldn’t disagree more. It’s the music and its reproduction that matters, not the device that is rendering it. | |
| A listening test of two power amps I prefer to keep that unknown, that’s why I was vague about it. I think it’s better to keep the test as blind as possible, so the emphasis is on which recording represents live performance and live sound more accurately. |