HI-FI NEWBIE NEEDS HELP!

"....you have tests that demonstrate the contrary......"

I certainly do, my ears. If to your ears all audio amplifiers sound they same and Emotiva is your benchmark for excellence, then you're a lucky person. You probably claim all acoustic guitars sound the same as long as they "measure" identical. You still haven't said what amplifiers have you actually heard to arrive at this conclusion . Your conclusions seem to be just by reading the measurements. As mentioned before, if the measurements were the only criterion in sound quality, all tube electronics belonged in the dumpster .

I actually enjoy reading views that oppose the mainstream and encourage the folks to continue presenting those views. No single view is always right. That been said, one point that I feel is critical to this debate and perhaps the ultimate arbitrator, is humans’ hearing physiology and how the brain processes the sound. Just like (almost) everything among us, our ears hear sounds differently. Like many others on this site I’m also an engineer, trained academically and have been practicing in the field for the past 36 years. So I believe in data just like our self claimed resident scientist. But I also believe our ear/brain process that data differently.

This debate is generally pointless since no agreement will ever be reached. Enough said.