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Plus ga change, plus c'est la meme chose' -the more things change, the more they stay the same. It's a popular enough refrain but one I thought was especially appropriate after enjoying the banter between Hi-Fi News' contributors discussing the correlation between amplifier sound quality and measured performance. You can read their thoughts on p1 24, but these musings were not written in 2014. They were published in our January 1978 issue... Thirty six years on and the debate about measured versus subjective performance is still just as contemporary, although I like to think we've advanced the state of the technical art somewhat in the intervening period! It's especially interesting to read these learned authors' comments about amplifier performance under peak music conditions.