What “definition”? That is NOT in any definition of an amp or even of any circuit or component, you just made-up that assertion yourself and falsely called it a “definition”! And then you have the nerve to state that I’m making up BS! While we’re on the subject of “definition”, don’t you know...

And the butchered quote in my post are your words! So you’re agreeing they’re your words and true to you?! Great, thanks for the confirmation! In this case just doubling down on the crap you made-up to start with! So you think guitar amps all have perfect fidelity and even mic pres? Why don’t...

Sort of but the poster you’re responding to is off-topic because he’s talking about a completely different type of amp with a completely different design philosophy, that has little/nothing to do with fidelity. G

See, I can play at mis-quoting you and then arguing a strawman as well! Honestly, what is wrong with you? Do you really think “every electric guitarist in the world” or “arguably the most successful recording engineer of all time” would try and drive their headphones or home hifi speakers with a...

Again, as there’s no such thing as an “unlinear relationship”, how do you think you’ve shown a clear example of one? No, but don’t let that stop you from making up nonsense! G

As there’s no such thing a “unlinear relationship” then obviously I don’t get it and also obviously you are taking your own advice and making a BS argument! Well done! G

That’s not even vaguely what you said! Where did you say that your assertions were hilarious and even worse than ridiculous? What you actually said/claimed is the IMD produced by your DAC was somehow audible, even though it’s so low in level it probably isn’t even being reproduced by your...

Oh god, please don’t actually ask him to “expound”, that just encourages him to post even more utter BS in a puerile attempt to justify his snake oil products! G

Again with a playback level of 85dBSPL the IMD of the Topping at 0dBFS (where it rises) would be at -10dBSPL. Even a child with perfect hearing in a world class anechoic chamber cannot hear anything at -10dBSPL but you apparently are superhuman, because not only can you hear that -10dBSPL IMD...

No, the “stupid argument” is that far higher distortion is better than lower distortion! According to you, distortion is better if it follows a straight line on a graph, even though it far higher. Not to mention that the distortion of the comparison, far cheaper DAC (Topping) is so low it...

As we don’t have the “need for random noise we have to insert in between the samples” then how is eliminating something which doesn’t exist a benefit? What is added between the samples is the original analogue signal. We add random noise (called dither, which for the last 30 years or so isn’t...

If your peak playback level is say 85dBSPL then the IMD of the topping, even where it rises at 0dBFS, would be at -10dBSPL. How are you ever going to hear -10dBSPL even in a world class anechoic chamber with no other sound, let alone when you’ve got music playing at 85dBSPL? Your HPs wouldn’t...

It’s normal for pretty much everything! If you lower the level by 10dB, you don’t just lower the peaks, you lower everything, so yes of course you generally get less noise and distortion. Again, you don’t seem to know how to read a graph and then you’re making up nonsense based on that lack of...

What objectivist has ever said that headroom doesn’t matter in a DAC? As a supposed objectivist, can I play that game too and state that subjectivist audiophiles “say it doesn’t matter” if a DAC is broken? Maybe you’re just confused about where headroom matters? Headroom definitely matters when...

Firstly, if a test can be passed several times with >95% confidence with just random choices, how is it not invalid? Secondly, I’m not sure what the point of this test is anyway. No one is disputing that one can’t tell a difference in absolute polarity with a test signal or in certain cases...

Sure but what about your worst 210° example, wouldn’t it actually be better in my example? There’s three serious problems with that: Firstly, just flipping the polarity of one mic will not “line the phase up with each other” because the phase difference to start with is almost never 180°...

Sure but if you’re going to play the “let’s say” game, then “let’s say” the phase is shifted by 160° or 540°, what is better then? No that is not why we sometimes flip the polarity of a channel. Again, no! There are circumstances where we want some phase cancellation that is audible in the...

I certainly hope not, as that would indicate they don’t have much understanding of digital audio or do have a good understanding but are lying! The sampling interval just defines the amount of time between each sample, it does not define the timing resolution, which in the case of 16/44.1 is...

While I’ve no reason to doubt GoldenSound’s published measurements, some of his conclusions/findings are straight out of the audiophile BS manual. I personally find this particularly egregious, he obviously has some serious knowledge in some areas but instead of using it to help audiophiles...

Generally one doesn’t. What makes this thread irrelevant is that there is no “absolute phase” in the real world of commercial recordings, the phase is typically all over the place due to numerous factors/sources. As soon as you use more than one microphone to create a recording, there will be...

That is exactly right, the problem is, you somehow seem oblivious to the fact that you are describing yourself! I presume this because you don’t know what either science or a belief is. I’ve already given you the definition of science (which by definition is “actually objective”) and the...

Exactly! You’re “not sure what other conclusion you should draw” because you are not thinking rationally. If you believe you can hear something that others can’t and you haven’t objectively/reliably verified what you are actually hearing then what is more rational; that you are subject to some...

Does you claim agree with the facts/science? And, do you have reliable evidence that they had “wood ears” or did you just make that up? Just making BS up will never go down well in any science or engineering discussion forum! Of course not, if you make a claim that doesn’t agree with the...

The thread title question you’ve asked is probably the original/oldest one where the audiophile world started to diverge from science/the facts, back in the 1970’s. In general, all amplifiers sound the same and historically, even SS and tube amplifiers. Of course there are conditions to this...

So it wasn’t you who stated the MScaler is an upgrade and then argued that “upscaling” works, who was I “quoting” then? G