"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"John Atkinson" wrote
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Mr. McKelvy neatly illustrates a point I have been making
for some time: that reduced to its bare essence, the
"objectivist" attitude to amplifiers is that "amplifiers
all sound identical except when they don't," which is
hardly helpful. :-)

Just goes to show how non-helpful things get when Atkinson tries to put
words in his opponents mouths.

We can go futher a lot Atkinson's staement in some very helpful ways.

For example, it's very likely that 90% or more of the SS amplifiers in
Stereophile's RCL could *not* be distinguished by Stereophile's reviewers,
based only on sound quality.

Based on the hearing ability of his reviewers it's unlikely they can hear
much of anything.