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In Reply to: RE: agreed on all counts! Thanks for putting this up. posted by morricab on June 26, 2012 at 05:37:54:
They are using circuits that we pioneered- yes, they are competition but they've yet to break the price barrier. So we have amps for about 1/4 the cost of theirs that are more reliable and sound better.
Of course, they like to use negative feedback and don't use class A.
There is a sort of 'trap' with OTLs where the designer tries to make the amp do things that it really shouldn't be, in an effort to show off what the amp can do. If you just accept the fact that an OTL might have a higher 'output impedance' (I put the term in quotes as under the Voltage Paradigm, the term is misused) then the thing to do is to look at whether that is important and what are the consequences.
Using negative feedback makes the amplifier violate a fundamental rule of human hearing, IOW it exacerbates odd-ordered harmonic distortion. The violation is that the ear uses odd-orders to determine how loud a sound is, so such an amp will sound artificially louder and brighter than the actual music.
This means that any amplifier built in this way cannot sound like real music!
So if a speaker demands this of an amplifier it in turn cannot sound like real music either. Since the Einstein commits this sin, it will never sound right. That, other than the price, is the reason we beat them on a level playing field.
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Follow Ups
- yes and no. - Ralph 10:16:26 06/26/12 (36)
- RE: yes and no. - Sunya 07:00:29 06/29/12 (28)
- RE: yes and no. - villastrangiato 08:09:50 06/29/12 (27)
- RE: yes and no. - Sunya 09:29:23 06/29/12 (26)
- FWIW, the old tubes vs transistors debate.... - Ralph 09:43:16 06/29/12 (25)
- RE: FWIW, the old tubes vs transistors debate.... - villastrangiato 20:14:32 06/29/12 (24)
- I think there are a few. - Ralph 09:37:51 07/02/12 (18)
- RE: I think there are a few. - villastrangiato 06:05:20 07/03/12 (17)
- RE: I think there are a few. - Ralph 10:00:07 07/03/12 (16)
- RE: I think there are a few. - villastrangiato 20:31:27 07/03/12 (15)
- harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - Ralph 11:13:05 07/04/12 (14)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 19:41:28 07/04/12 (13)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - Ralph 09:29:27 07/05/12 (3)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 19:57:03 07/05/12 (2)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - PaulF70 07:28:10 06/17/16 (0)
- The human ear is the most important thing in audio - Ralph 07:48:20 07/07/12 (0)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 01:13:20 07/05/12 (8)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 04:42:49 07/05/12 (7)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 14:21:54 07/05/12 (5)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - villastrangiato 19:46:44 07/05/12 (4)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 00:36:34 07/06/12 (3)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - Sunya 07:02:50 07/06/12 (2)
- Correction - morricab 15:14:17 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: harmonic distortion does not get 'buried in the mix'. - morricab 15:10:10 07/06/12 (0)
- If you are not willing to read the studies and work you will remain ignorant - Ralph 09:42:57 07/05/12 (0)
- Spectral nt - Sunya 03:39:31 07/01/12 (4)
- RE: Spectral nt - villastrangiato 07:11:53 07/01/12 (3)
- RE: Spectral et al... - Ralph 09:33:53 07/02/12 (0)
- RE: Spectral nt - morricab 09:39:07 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: Spectral nt - rick_m 09:19:53 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: yes and no. - morricab 08:07:36 06/27/12 (6)
- RE: yes and no. - Ralph 09:25:00 06/27/12 (5)
- RE: yes and no. - villastrangiato 08:13:24 06/28/12 (4)
- The goal is the same. - Ralph 12:31:01 06/28/12 (3)
- RE: The goal is the same. - rick_m 09:36:22 06/29/12 (0)
- RE: The goal is the same. - morricab 00:18:36 06/29/12 (1)
- RE: Yes, I agree. nt - Ralph 09:32:46 06/29/12 (0)