FlexibleAudio
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Re my post #91 above and JA's comment about Class D sound integration, I have said this before, but will repeat the concept because I believe it may have relevance to JA's comments: I am convinced the brain's exceptional ability to discern virtually immeasurable variances in time domain is behind much of the preference some have for analog over digital and or Class A over Class D. The best evidence I could put fourth for this phenomenon is the progression of dacs toward an analog sound as the clock speed is improved (all else held constant). Take an MSB Diamond and play the Femto 140, then the 77 and then the Femto 33 all in the same dac with the same music. You get a progression toward an analog sound. This difference in clock speed is extremely small and would never show up in traditional measurables. Atkin's wave form and impulse plots are in .001 seconds; a femto is .000000000000001 seconds and yet the human mind can discern these change in the time domain.
In my post #91 I was tongue in cheek about actually hearing the silence between Class D pulses compared to Class A, but I do think its possible some find the pulses' effects on time domain to be less to there liking than other forms of amplification.
Please Note: throughout the above I make no statement about the superiority of digital to analog, Cass D to Class A, or vice versa. I am merely providing complete speculation on something that might cause the differences in sound observed by many given what I think is a fairly well accepted observation about the correlation between infinitesimal changes in clock speed and dac performance.
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