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  • Agree on the writing style. Not 100% sure that his conclusions are sound.

    He says that digital masters are massively compressed. I doubt that is correct.

    He talks about valve amps using only point to point wiring. Ok, nice high end hand made gear but I doubt you can "hear" a PCB.

    Valve amps introduce measurable distortion. Many people enjoy this. That's fine, but I don't buy that it's somehow "closer to the original sound".

    I do agree that LPs made from CD rips are a waste of time, and are audibly inferior. Someone gave me an Oscar Peterson LP on one of those labels. It's rubbish. The same argument does not apply, IMO, to LPs made from studio digital masters.

  • He talks about valve amps using only point to point wiring. Ok, nice high end hand made gear but I doubt you can "hear" a PCB.

    This geezer says P2P wiring will always sound better than PCB, but is impractical to impossible in many situations. (@ 4:57)

    https://youtu.be/wFMv0Y8TsCc?t=297

    Speaking purely out of my arse, I would imagine having thicker gauge conductors throughout the circuitry would have an effect.

  • It probably is a better way of doing things, in certain applications. But better and perceptible are not necessarily the same.

  • It has an effect on capacitance and voltage drop. It's one reason why p2p valve amps use a lot of energy.

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