opaqueice;235508 Wrote: 
> I can sum it up by saying that all good sources sound identical - if
> there's an audible difference one of them isn't well designed and is
> adding distortion.
All sources (and amplifiers) add distortion, which is what accounts for
differences in sound. Some forms of distortion are more pleasing to the
human ear than others and some are more sympathetic to particular types
of music, so the sound which is judged as 'best' may not be that which
most accurately reproduces the source. 
opaqueice;235508 Wrote: 
> You're expressing a strongly biased opinion.  I'm stating a fact backed
> up by many blind listening tests, measurements of the magnitude of the
> differences, and 150 years of research into acoustics and the limits of
> human hearing
Talking as an erstwhile test and measurement engineer and not an
audiophile (whatever that is ;)), test results are limited to the
attributes being monitored by the test. It's very difficult to measure
every parameter which might influence the sound reaching the ear
simultaneously. At my age, I will concede your point about the limits
of human hearing though.


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