In Reply to: Reviewers with LP (or digital) -final posted by J. Phelan on March 16, 2017 at 04:44:06:
A solution arrived, however, with full-digital amplifiers. Here, digital signals drive a loudspeaker, directly. This type of product, out since the late 1990s, is finally getting attention - Lyngdorf TDAI, NAD M2, Technics R1 system.From the Lyngdorf site:
a digital input is processed only once in a pulse width modulator (PWM) based on the patented Equibitâ„¢ technology originally developed for the Millennium amplifier (as opposed to pulse code modulation).
From the Technics site:
This works with a newly-developed and original high-precision PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) conversion circuit,
Both quotes suggest a class D amplifier driven by a digital source. Its a bit misleading to call that a digital amplifier. Class D is not digital, but does lend itself conveniently to direct conversion.Digital is sweeping the audio world
'Swept' is the better term, but oddly digital failed to stamp out the LP. You need not know anything about either technology to thus know that digital so far has been a failure in terms of state of the art. This is because the LP is still around, driven by market forces. Usually when a succeeding and superior technology supplants the prior art, the prior art is relegated to collectors and museums (the side valve in internal combustion gave way long ago to the overhead valve and there was no looking back).
The period of the least amount of LP reproduction was 1992-1993- IOW, a quarter of a century ago. Its been on the rise ever since.
Late last year the LP outsold digital downloads in the UK.
You are entitled to your opinion of course, but it flies in the face of the market forces which are somehow keeping the LP alive, and FWIW its not audiophiles that are doing that! Its kids- and kids have kept the LP alive for over 25 years now- its not a 'trend'. Its a simple fact that digital failed to do what audiophiles were told it would do- replace the LP.
Edits: 03/16/17
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- Corrections - Ralph 09:05:20 03/16/17 (54)
- RE: Corrections - J. Phelan 09:42:48 03/16/17 (53)
- RE: Corrections - RGA 17:52:45 03/16/17 (0)
- RE: Corrections - Ralph 10:03:58 03/16/17 (51)
- RE: Corrections - J. Phelan 10:31:22 03/16/17 (50)
- RE: Corrections - Ralph 13:52:04 03/16/17 (49)
- RE: Corrections - J. Phelan 14:25:41 03/16/17 (48)
- Please. - Kal Rubinson 15:54:09 03/16/17 (0)
- RE: Corrections - Ralph 15:37:51 03/16/17 (46)
- RE: Corrections - J. Phelan 15:55:11 03/16/17 (45)
- A pretty good description of class D and why its not actually digital. - Ralph 10:56:17 03/22/17 (10)
- RE: A pretty good description of class D and why its not actually digital. - J. Phelan 14:29:38 03/22/17 (9)
- Ah. So we're in agreement here. - Ralph 15:15:40 03/22/17 (8)
- RE: Ah. So we're in agreement here. - J. Phelan 15:29:42 03/22/17 (7)
- That's right! - Ralph 09:32:39 03/23/17 (6)
- RE: That's right! - J. Phelan 14:26:06 03/23/17 (5)
- You don't know what 'analog' means, apparently - Ralph 09:24:57 03/24/17 (4)
- RE: You don't know what 'analog' means, apparently - J. Phelan 13:31:56 03/24/17 (3)
- That's pretty funny. - Ralph 14:04:53 03/24/17 (2)
- RE: That's pretty funny. - J. Phelan 15:20:30 03/24/17 (1)
- RE: That's pretty funny. - Ralph 09:40:22 03/27/17 (0)
- RE: Corrections - Ralph 08:53:21 03/17/17 (2)
- RE: Corrections - J. Phelan 10:59:39 03/17/17 (1)
- That's really funny - Ralph 11:28:42 03/17/17 (0)
- Link? (nt) - mkuller 21:39:37 03/16/17 (30)
- RE: Link? (nt) - J. Phelan 06:29:15 03/17/17 (29)
- Most likely you still won't get it, but... - E-Stat 06:53:31 03/17/17 (28)
- RE: Most likely you still won't get it, but... - J. Phelan 07:17:49 03/17/17 (27)
- RE: you still won't get it... - Ralph 08:41:07 03/17/17 (25)
- RE: you still won't get it... - J. Phelan 10:57:40 03/17/17 (24)
- RE: you still won't get it... - Ralph 11:27:44 03/17/17 (23)
- RE: you still won't get it... - J. Phelan 11:34:25 03/17/17 (22)
- Which means: - Ralph 11:48:52 03/17/17 (21)
- Start with the dictionary definition of "digital" - Dave_K 09:59:54 03/18/17 (15)
- RE: Start with the dictionary definition of "digital" - Ralph 09:49:51 03/20/17 (12)
- RE: Start with the dictionary definition of "digital" - J. Phelan 10:01:15 03/20/17 (11)
- you would be incorrect about that - Ralph 10:47:25 03/20/17 (10)
- RE: you would be incorrect about that - J. Phelan 11:38:52 03/20/17 (9)
- Wow. Just wow. - Ralph 12:46:29 03/20/17 (8)
- RE: Wow. Just wow. - J. Phelan 14:23:18 03/20/17 (7)
- RE: Wow. Just wow. - Ralph 14:56:16 03/20/17 (6)
- RE: Wow. Just wow. - J. Phelan 17:24:37 03/20/17 (5)
- That's a good link - Ralph 08:38:29 03/21/17 (4)
- RE: That's a good link - J. Phelan 15:58:53 03/21/17 (3)
- RE: That's a good link - Ralph 10:06:59 03/22/17 (2)
- RE: That's a good link - J. Phelan 14:31:34 03/22/17 (1)
- RE: That's a good link - Ralph 15:16:38 03/22/17 (0)
- RE: Start with the dictionary definition of "digital" - J. Phelan 12:58:04 03/18/17 (1)
- RE: Start with the dictionary definition of "digital" - Ralph 09:37:31 03/20/17 (0)
- RE: Which means: - J. Phelan 13:54:00 03/17/17 (4)
- I was correct - E-Stat 07:22:06 03/17/17 (0)