Posted by manualblock [ 69.114.4.252 ] on February 15, 2005 at 19:25:16:
In Reply to: Re: Pull pin... posted by akhilesh on February 15, 2005 at 08:34:31:
I think both of your opening statements are mutually conclusive. By definition the trade-offs are addressed; why would anyone design an amp to not address them? The problem is I believe there is more to the story concerning distortion and perception. Read Hiraga's test results in last summers AudioeXpress. He does extensive abx testing isolating odd and even distortion levels in different amplifiers extending upwards of multiple distortion factors. As usual there is more to the story than one would expect from the usual 2nd and 3rd order explanations.