Chu Gai
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You'd need to elaborate more on your statement Curtis.
So let your ears be the final judge and don't base your purchases on any opinion, review or scientific experiment by some one else who doesn't have your ears. Only trust people who have your ears and that would be you and only you.Amen...
Kevitra: for "source," I was referring to the software/recording and the transport/decoder/turntable cartridge/etc. I think that my #4 and #5, "source" and "processing", could be reversed in order without a lot of quibbling from me.
Yogi: OK, amps affect the "sound" more than the phases of the moon, but definitely less than the Coriolis [sp?] effect.
At the end of the day, you gotta go with what your ears/brain tell you...
Capacitor sound isn't so much capacitor sound I think as it has to do with various performance characteristics of capacitors. Whether they're lossy, have non-linear characteristics that haven't been compensated for given where they've been placed, and other well-known electrical characteristics apart from simply capacitance are matters for consideration. Considerations that are 'perhaps' best left to those who know how to design circuits.Thanks Chu, for seeing what I mean. Of course no single component affects sound just due to its inherent properties but due to its complex interaction with the rest of the circuit. So we both agree that the designer has certain room to play with when designing audio circuits, in choosing the design and the constituent components in order to get a certain type of sound.
Can we now agree that German beers are the best.
Any discussion involving amplifiers will eventually evolve into a discussion of beer...German and British beers = lush, warm
Japanese = bright, edgy
Italian and Mexican = forward, revealing
domestics = neutral, flat