RMS doesn't bother me near as much as...
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| cjcox Feb 18, 2005 10:09 AM EDT |
RMS doesn't bother me near as much as THD. I mean, THD really causes the most problems. But I think people get stuck on high RMS values. As long as it is a well matched system and your THD is low, it will sound great. |
| PaulFerris Feb 18, 2005 10:34 AM EDT |
Don't forget the distortion levels too. Those are important figures when choosing good stereo equipment. |
| cjcox Feb 18, 2005 11:57 AM EDT |
At least we dont' have to deal with wow and flutter anymore. |
| devnet Feb 18, 2005 1:05 PM EDT |
He's (RMS) actually got quite a few interesting points...albeit some blown out of spec. |
| tuxchick Feb 18, 2005 2:54 PM EDT |
ESR is an awesome role model. He's into guns n babes. What more does a person need? |
| devnet Feb 18, 2005 3:14 PM EDT |
tuxchick: Beer? |
| AnonymousCoward Feb 19, 2005 4:21 AM EDT |
What bothers me is people who will pay tens of thousands of dollars for a perfect stereo which then turns the electricity into soundwaves with speakers that have 1-2% distortion. It also bothers me to see people spend thousands for a noisy, unreliable valve aplifier when exactly the same "warm" effect can be had with two 10c FETs and not much else. Wire in some leaked mains hum and orange LEDs to simulate the effects of the filaments and you're away. I can see a lot of parallels here with software from our favourite monopolist. |
| hkwint Feb 20, 2005 1:17 PM EDT |
What botters me is the people saying they can hear the difference between a 1m long cable and the same 5m long cable, while they use graphite cables costing $10.000 / m. Oh, and it botters me too you people didn't explain what THD means (total harmonic distortion), now I had to look it up in wikipedia. |
| cjcox Feb 20, 2005 7:30 PM EDT |
I'm suprised that THD didn't show up in Wikipedia as having to do with Tom's Hardware :) |
| Koriel Feb 21, 2005 5:34 AM EDT |
Their are lies, damned lies and PMP :) |
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