Al, that is why I came up with the 'Paradigm' part of it. In investigating this topic years ago what I found was just as you pose in your last post, that the terms are slung loosely and freely, resulting in a lot of confusion.
On top of that, I used the word 'paradigm' since a paradigm is a platform of thought, outside of which exists only blasphemy. This is why you see such staunch argument on this topic!
I also saw failure. I say this because whenever a new technology comes along, if it is really better it will supplant the prior art. In the case of audio, the Voltage Paradigm and all that it entails failed to supplant the Power Paradigm which was the only game in town before 1956 or so. The proof of that? Tubes are still in production 60 years on, audiophiles still can't tell how an amp sounds by looking at the spec sheet. The tubes/transistor debate and the objectivist/subjectivist debate have raged on the internet as long as the internet has existed.
If you look at internal combustion, the overhead valve supplanted the side valve in the early 1950s with no-one looking back except collectors. That should have happened in audio too, but it didn't, for the simple reason that the Voltage Paradigm was not in fact better. It was just different.
On top of that, I used the word 'paradigm' since a paradigm is a platform of thought, outside of which exists only blasphemy. This is why you see such staunch argument on this topic!
I also saw failure. I say this because whenever a new technology comes along, if it is really better it will supplant the prior art. In the case of audio, the Voltage Paradigm and all that it entails failed to supplant the Power Paradigm which was the only game in town before 1956 or so. The proof of that? Tubes are still in production 60 years on, audiophiles still can't tell how an amp sounds by looking at the spec sheet. The tubes/transistor debate and the objectivist/subjectivist debate have raged on the internet as long as the internet has existed.
If you look at internal combustion, the overhead valve supplanted the side valve in the early 1950s with no-one looking back except collectors. That should have happened in audio too, but it didn't, for the simple reason that the Voltage Paradigm was not in fact better. It was just different.