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RE: Agree completely...

Posted by RGA (R) on January 7, 2022 at 20:31:22

In Reply to: Agree completely... posted by Ivan303 on January 7, 2022 at 08:00:17:

Everyone who buys Audio Note owned better measuring gear.

I just answered this same thing on another board - it's not only that AN measures poorly but it is "compounding" bad measurements. NOS CD replay is the WORST measuring (although not so in the time domain) digital there is.

Art Dudley said the 4.1x was the best sounding CD player he had ever heard - it's so weird that FEANOR ignores completely any and all subjective experience - AN DACs have also been in blind tests - and never lost. The AN E and J have been in blind tests and won those as well - HiFi Choice hires COMPETING manufacturers and in blind tests, the AN J won and the magazine bought the speakers as a reference. Twice!

You then run that bad measuring source into a comically bad measuring SET amp and into "middling" measuring speakers - I mean the speakers are the best measuring thing of the lot and they're not that great.

So as an Atheist science first guy - it is highly frustrating to be a measurements guru through the entire decade of the 1990s as a guy who scoffed at shitty tubes and SETs and who was a professional speakers and amps guy. I used to be on forums saying:

B&W/Genelec/PMC and Bryston must be the best because they are used at Abbey Road and other major recording studios - Music was recorded on this stuff - the measurements are the best and they sell a lot and the reviews are glowing.

So when I heard the Meishu in a pseudo blind audition with some AN E speakers that utterly trounced the hundred and hundreds of systems I heard for over 10 years it was an ear-opener.

How as it blind - I sat listening to this unknown system to Beethoven and brahms and Chopin and various rock and vocals and I looked over at this big silver box.

I say to the dealer - wow how many watts does that beat put out. He replied 8. I say wow 800 watts. He says "No...8. 8 watts."

I know Feanor thinks everyone with any money is a moron but I went back more than half a dozen times because I could NOT believe that some shitty 8-watt amp was making Bryston sound like two people banging tin cans together in comparison. I MUST have been seduced by the distortion - it must be tricking me - The SET must be creating a high enough noise floor to trick me into thinking it is "ambiance" the super bass tunefulness must be the cabinet resonance playing tricks on my ears - All this crap will be temporary and after a short while I will grow tired of the smoke and mirrors.

20 years later - still hasn't happened.

Shows are hit and miss - some cheap rooms will beat some expensive rooms. I ranked MBL and YG Acoustics dead last at one show and top 1-2 at the next show. I have ranked AN rooms highly at one show and near worst at another - and that's what I own - but it can sound pretty weak (or less diplomatically - lousy) too.

There are so many good speakers and systems out there - it's a shame Feanor has never bothered to try ANY of them. He can only afford a Topping amp and so because that's all he can afford it's the best amplifier ever built and he KNOWS it's a fact because he read about someone telling him so.

I guess when someone is a closed-minded old set in his ways boomer too poor to buy anything good you have to grasp onto self-deluded notions that anything you can't afford is overpriced conning people out of their money.

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