View Single Post
Old 6th Aug 2020, 10:09 am   #1682
GrimJosef
Dekatron
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Oxfordshire, UK.
Posts: 4,311
Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

Quote:
Originally Posted by stevehertz View Post
... One of the biggest things seems to be this infatuation with an amp having to 'match' a pair of speakers ... most, even half decent amps have very straight frequency response curves so it's plain ridiculous ...
What you would call 'even half decent amps' don't cover the whole range of amps available these days. There's quite a large number of single-ended triode amps without any negative feedback out there. Their frequency response into a pure resistance may not be all that flat and, more significantly, their output impedance won't be low either. Given the wild swings in speaker impedance with frequency, there's quite a bit of scope for different combinations of amps and speakers to sound different.

Cheers,

GJ
__________________
http://www.ampregen.com
GrimJosef is offline   Reply With Quote