Hmm. George, I'm not worried about it- I simply acknowledged that you were correct yet you're still going off. If anyone seems in damage control mode, its you right now. Just calm down.
You'd have to imagine that I'm well aware of what our amps can and can't do; our amps don't use feedback, so speaker choice is important. But the flip side of that has consistently been that if the speaker requires the amp to have feedback, it also has no chance of sounding like real music (I can outline exactly why easily enough). So I just vet each sale to make sure the customer is going to have a success. Works pretty well- that's why we're one of the older manufacturers in high end audio- 42 years in about 10 days.
I don't remember which customer lent us the Lightspeed, but we had it for a week. As passives go, it was one of the better ones we checked out. If you are on a budget and have only high level sources, its not a bad way to go. IOW like any passive it can do well but not state of the art; plain and simple. That's why I'm not worried; passives are just a little too simple to do everything correctly (the better your system gets, the easier this is to hear). Cable control and buffering the source to prevent distortion are two example of why and I can name more.
Now that's not an insult, its just a statement of fact. State of the art nearly always costs more and that shouldn't bother you.
BTW, your comment about headroom in preamplifier and source design is still false and no amount of remonstration on your part will change that. I chose not to continue that bit but you insist on attacks. Just calm down and it will be OK.
You'd have to imagine that I'm well aware of what our amps can and can't do; our amps don't use feedback, so speaker choice is important. But the flip side of that has consistently been that if the speaker requires the amp to have feedback, it also has no chance of sounding like real music (I can outline exactly why easily enough). So I just vet each sale to make sure the customer is going to have a success. Works pretty well- that's why we're one of the older manufacturers in high end audio- 42 years in about 10 days.
I don't remember which customer lent us the Lightspeed, but we had it for a week. As passives go, it was one of the better ones we checked out. If you are on a budget and have only high level sources, its not a bad way to go. IOW like any passive it can do well but not state of the art; plain and simple. That's why I'm not worried; passives are just a little too simple to do everything correctly (the better your system gets, the easier this is to hear). Cable control and buffering the source to prevent distortion are two example of why and I can name more.
Now that's not an insult, its just a statement of fact. State of the art nearly always costs more and that shouldn't bother you.
BTW, your comment about headroom in preamplifier and source design is still false and no amount of remonstration on your part will change that. I chose not to continue that bit but you insist on attacks. Just calm down and it will be OK.