w3wilkes wrote: > Back in the 80's Bob Carver pretty much proved that any (pre)amplifiers > sound could be duplicated using a low cost solid state platform > regardless of the (pre)amp cost or being of tube or solid state design. > This is probably why the "audio rag experts" shun blind testing as they > were fooled by Mr. Carver. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Carver > > It looks like Mr. Carver later went on to cash in on his name with his > "Bob Carver LLC" Cherry 180 Tube Monoblocks in 2011. Of course he didn't > let on that he could probably exactly reproduce the sound of that > monoblock for less than 10% the cost of the Cherry 180.
That wiki article make interesting reading I particularly like "The Stereophile employees failed to pass a single blind test with their own equipment in their own listening room" Maybe this should be posted in the Audiophile section. *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezePlayer,PiCorePlayer x3,Wandboard *Server:* LMS Version: 7.9.0 - 1453293926 on Centos 7 VM on ESXi 6 on HP N54L *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud *Remotes:* iPeng8/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite *Music:* 383GB,1269 albums 17756 songs 4381 artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105018 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
