This brought to mind the NwAvGuy discussion (mysteriously awesome no-derivative amp) nearly three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451062 https

This brought to mind the NwAvGuy discussion (mysteriously awesome no-derivative amp) nearly three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451062 To be fair, his style was highly argumentative. He left no room for subjectivity or talking about subjectivity in anything. Which leaves out a fair portion about what audio really is to the human brain, whether or not you perfect its reproduction mathematically.