An amplifier should not have a voice.

Maybe in theory, but in practice componants sound different and amps sound
different, and 'voicing' an amp is the common term used in its development.
I've had a few conversations about how Beard amps were 'voiced', for instance,
with one of their chief designers. In terms of valves, the common term 'tube
rolling' would not exist if it were not for the fact that tubes sound different
- swap a 6J5, 6L5, 6C5 and 6P5 and you'll have subtly different sounds, not
even to mention varieties within each type like metal, G and GT, round anode,
flat anode, care in manufacture, production run etc etc. Such threads on tube
rolling and voicing fill the pages of www.audioasylum.com. To suggest that this
representative bunch of electrical engineers, chemical engineers, nuclear
physicists and just plain DIY amp builders with many years of building
experience don't know what they're doing is surely stretching credulity just a
bit too far.

=== Andy Evans ===
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