Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/16

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Subject: Re: 35mm Asph./ASPHERICAL
From: dlevy@worldy.com
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:16:12 -0400

At 10:10  16/10/96 +0100, you wrote:

You are welcome. Of course the same could be said of almost anything than
man creates such as the automobile.

>Brian,
>
>Thank you so much for supporting! 
>
>The message I wanted to send was that test results are not the full 
>truth (in fact, they are not more and not less than a part of a 
>spectrum). This was written because of many people believing that the 
>whole truth (or at least, a reasonable part of it)  lies in lab test
reports and their figures ...
>
>Have a fine day
>Hubert
>
>> Date:          Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:42:24 -0400
>> To:            leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> From:          dlevy@worldy.com
>> Subject:       Re: 35mm Asph./ASPHERICAL
>> Reply-to:      leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>
>> At 02:59  15/10/96 +0100, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >Then, to come to the point: Testing high end equipment leaves the 
>> >range of measurable data. Wer'e talking about top quality equipment 
>> >(and it wouldn't be top quality/high end/call it as you like if you could
>> > _measure_ a flaw!). It's the same case for high end hifi equipment 
>> >BTW, all units will deliver excellent test results.
>> >
>> 
>> Unfortunately, this is not true regarding high end excellent sounding audio
>> equipment. You can design equipment which will test excellent on the bench
>> and sound terrible. Early transistor designs were a proof of this. The were
>> designed to have both thd, im distortion and frequency response which would
>> beat tube equipment, but sounded absolutely terrible. Even today, most
>> transistor designs of low and mid hi-fi components have tests results which
>> are better than say Audio Research, new Dynaco, etc., but the tube equip
>> still sounds better. Also, there are very good solid state designs today
>> which don't test any better than the mid-fi equipment, but kill it sonically.
>> 
>> Both audio equipment and lenses exhibit certain nuances which I think to
>> date can not of have not been quantified by objective criteria.  
>(...)
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>
>
Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto, Ont.
dlevy@worldy.com