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Let's get this. If something is stated as an opinion there is no need for a proof when it is stated as a fact thee is a need for proofs to back-up the assertion.
My smiley is indeed that I find funny how the poster opinion of digital is what people would have said about LP 40 years ago... When the TT,arms and Cartridges of the day could not keep up with what was on the LP ...
If the forun is about people posting only opinions then we will not go anywhere and learn even less... Let'be happy that the exchanges are polite and let's continue to keep them that way but please let us not become a version of everything goes and all systems are great. If "everything is great" then great because a meaningless term .. Let's not debase our forum to that extent. Someone tells me a lathe has unlimited dynamics .. Prove it cause I can't see how.. Educate me on the mechanics of a lathe that would have allowed such to be true so far, I am reasonably certain that lathe dynamic range is not 120 dB not even 90 dB ...
I also understand the hyperbole about objectivists but it is that, an hyperbole. Most objectivists hold subjective views too: There are things they (we) like yet, they (we) can't explain why. I don't see for example anything special in Burmester measurements to explain why I find them sounding so good or so silent (aside from the superlative damping factor) ... even less the Magnepan and their very weird Frequency response. I llike them nonetheless ...etc... I do find myself liking a ot of Speakers with good FR: The Revel Salon for exemple but also the Magicos and the Rockports ... so ...
Frantz-I think that you and I are more in agreement than disagreement. I for one don’t think that everything sounds great-quite the contrary. As for cutting lathes, I have no idea what their true maximum dynamic range is capable of. I wish someone like Doug Sax was on this forum and could enlighten us. I won’t pretend that I’m smart enough to understand how the geometry relates to the dynamic range in terms of dBs.