Well, I don't want to get into a long OT argument, but famously John Atkinson also couldn't hear the difference between a tube and a solid state amp in a blind test. Not to mention tens or hundreds of blind tests in which the audience failed to as well. There are some (badly engineered) tube amps for which the difference really is obvious, but for most it's not at all.
As for your categories, I do the same thing, but I've learned from bitter experience that sometimes things I had solidly put in category (1) turned out to be illusory. What's maybe more important here is that the boundaries of those categories, or the words people use to describe them, vary enormously from person to person. In fact many audiophiles will hardly admit there's any category (2) - if they hear a difference it's there, period. That's another reason blind tests are the only way to go - they provide an objective standard. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
