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In the Thread: The idiotism of Audio Synergy
Post Subject: Synergy, compatibility etc.Posted by JJ Triode on: 1/28/2008
"Synergy" as a BS concept is not about technical compatibility, such as getting a tonearm resonance below 12 Hz or getting proper speaker sensitivity and impedance for a given amplifier. It is about the bogus notion of choosing colored components such as to try to make the colorations cancel. Even if it could be restricted to the linear frequency response, it should be obvious that it will almost never work except at a few specific frequencies, with the rest of the range getting more messed up. It gets worse when various kinds of distortion are a factor, since then the errors become completely additive rather than subtractive.
The most we can ask of an audio element in relation to other elements is that it should allow them to sound as good as they are able to sound. My first serious audio "guru" summed it up with an old but true expression: two wrongs don't make a right.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site