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Originally Posted by GrimJosef
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Originally Posted by stevehertz
... 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 ...
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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.
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Right. I am talking about common or garden solid state hifi amps, not esoteric valve stuff which are greatly outnumbered by the former by a massive magnitude. So, for me, given what I've just said, amp speaker matching is
largely (not uniquely) an audiophoolery thing.