valve amp?

[Peter Korsten]

Op 20-10-2011 2:04, Joost Schuttelaar schreef:

> In my opinion the sound difference between (simply decent) amps is really small. The acoustics of the room, listener position and speaker quality have orders of magnitude more effect.

A friend of mine had these super-sophisticated speakers, that are more 
or less the size of a small door (in width, height and particularly 
thickness) and which are supposedly the bee's knees. He was into jazz, 
or something similarly horrid, and whilst you could indeed hear a lot of 
detail in those speakers, they also had absolutely no bass presence 
worth mentioning.

In my opinion, this whole audiophile business is a load of tosh, but on 
the other hand, I've trouble telling the difference between an 
uncompressed audio file and an 128 bit MP3.

- Peter