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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.

I hear that the whole Stereophile crowd never tires of
hearing the sounds of their voices. ;-)