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HOW MUCH DO POWER AMPS COLOUR SOUND?
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<blockquote data-quote="chipwelder" data-source="post: 95987" data-attributes="member: 54"><p>In my opinion, and I am just an informed-ish lay person... And I postulate wildly from reading many many reviews. And I hope inductive thinking. </p><p></p><p>Conrad Johnson designed for a sound, they still do, they are very pleasant, but they are definitely not aimed at the purist type hi-fi, no matter what they profess, those amps were a backlash against solid state glare and clinical sound. I believe the true hi-end has moved on, and accuracy is once again very important for some. I believe CJ was a fairly easy target (counter-intuitively) as it may sound, as it was diagonally opposite the design of the amp Carver used, and as such it was fairly easy to get a well measuring amp to perform like a poor measuring amp, that for all intents and purposes relies heavily on certain harmonic distortions to make the sound... i.e. It would be more similar to the amp than different. It would be much harder for the carver to be made to sound like an amp that measures better i.t.o slew rate, Signal to noise ratio, PSu filtering, phase response, and with all this low parts count added to the mix. I am sure Carver could make the amp sound very much the same, using that methodology - I hopefully believe though that the some amps we hold in high regard, would still sound better, even if the sound was matched very closely</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chipwelder, post: 95987, member: 54"] In my opinion, and I am just an informed-ish lay person... And I postulate wildly from reading many many reviews. And I hope inductive thinking. Conrad Johnson designed for a sound, they still do, they are very pleasant, but they are definitely not aimed at the purist type hi-fi, no matter what they profess, those amps were a backlash against solid state glare and clinical sound. I believe the true hi-end has moved on, and accuracy is once again very important for some. I believe CJ was a fairly easy target (counter-intuitively) as it may sound, as it was diagonally opposite the design of the amp Carver used, and as such it was fairly easy to get a well measuring amp to perform like a poor measuring amp, that for all intents and purposes relies heavily on certain harmonic distortions to make the sound... i.e. It would be more similar to the amp than different. It would be much harder for the carver to be made to sound like an amp that measures better i.t.o slew rate, Signal to noise ratio, PSu filtering, phase response, and with all this low parts count added to the mix. I am sure Carver could make the amp sound very much the same, using that methodology - I hopefully believe though that the some amps we hold in high regard, would still sound better, even if the sound was matched very closely [/QUOTE]
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