Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp?

cleeds,

No I was referring to the fact that different frequencies travel at different distances from the center of the wire. The skin effect is the RF term but it shows the extent that high frequencies move away from the center which can be present in the audio band.

geoffkait

  Are you doing something quantum mechanically? Or are you just fond of the word quantum? ;-)

Yes - part of the auto-focus circuitry that tracks sound objects (as a very small signal)

I had to create a device that was dead quiet and begins tracking at 0.07 nano volts. The quantum reference thread used to detect velocity has an extremely high Z. (90+ gig). The velocity control system is driven directly from this process which squeezes the signal [gauge] into a virtual plasma. The plasma is also high Z.  The thread is then combined with the signal at the plasma level to ensure impedance matching.The signal is suspended this way so the auto focus circuitry can fully dominate the signal velocity while preventing it from "touching" the surrounding template and support circuitry.  This keeps contamination out of the signal.

The velocity control system is a twin running shift generator (red shift - blue shift) which is held to a servo neutral point under tremendous pressure.
Once detected, extremely tiny amounts of signal velocity are met with a counter measure (injected into the plasma) of greater than 700 db in real time.

All of this is held in a solid substrate made at the factory.

The signal velocity has no chance of deviating away from a dead accurate
Max error would be in nano degrees of phase shift away from the fundamental. 

It is impossible to generate harmonic distortion.
This technique is used through the entire chain.
The output is a virtual clone of the input (only bigger).
Since the output velocity = the input velocity it will pass the electrical version of a sound wave all the way through at exactly Mach One.

The hardware itself which has no sound of its own emulates the properties of air. Both pressure and time are locked in sync with the music signal.

The experience can be described as listening through a large hole in the wall to a performance happening in the next room. Nothing but air.

That's live.

Roger
 

Geoffkait: Are you doing something quantum mechanically? Or are you just fond of the word quantum? ;-)

Roger: Yes - part of the auto-focus circuitry that tracks sound objects (as a very small signal)

I do not see that auto-focus circuitry as being quantum mechanical even for very small signals. But maybe I'm missing something that's too small to see.  ;-)

Geoffkait

The precision of the auto focus circuitry relies on quantum mechanics to function properly. It extends the sensitivity of the velocity detection by massive amounts. The last few years of my work has been trying to accurately detect the flow or motion of the sound [wave] itself. The music information is clearly present in the electrical signal - but embedded deeper down in the signal (at a "DNA" level) is the stored data that reveals the pinpoint location of sound objects in a captured venue. It is tied directly to the flow rate or velocity of a traversing signal as it passes through an amplifier.

The wave phenomenon can be tangible or intangible depending on the medium.

Try this…

You are at a baseball game and the fans at one end of the stadium start what is known as the "wave". Fans stand up and raise their arms and sit down as fans next to them follow the same pattern. To fans across the other side of the stadium it appears that there is a continuous movement or flow of the "gesture".  There is no physical transfer of anything between fans but you can observe the wave phenomenon as something flowing and at any one instant you even know where it has passed and how long it took to get there.

The wave part of a sound waves is the critical key to recovering not only the accurate measurements of instantaneous air pressure – but it also reveals when [time] and where [location] the change in air pressure began. At the venue from your seat, you are listening to an historical event due to the delivery time. It is important to note that the slight delay (delivery offset in time) caused by the distance the waves travel is automatically ignored and removed by the ear-brain system as long as it is close enough to the source and you do not have visual clues (when you observe a drum being struck). That air pressure data rides on the wave which can be considered the carrier (like an AM radio transmission, you must be tuned to the carrier to recover the audio)

When the flow rate cannot be identified or it acts more like FM where the carrier frequency is intentionally modulated (horizontal axis) with audio – the location and pitch of sound objects has become unstable. The amount of instability is proportional to the degree of (velocity) contamination caused by microscopic alterations in the time domain. Under these conditions the “delivery offset” cannot be ignored by the ear-brain system because it is varying therefore the apparent distance between you and the performance is not constant.  This causes a secondary tracking event by the brain to deal with an offset that keeps changing. THIS DISTRACTION ALONE IS THE RED FLAG THAT TELLS YOUR BRAIN IT IS FAKE. In the absence of this variation - your brain is free to use the default (high level conversion) of streaming sound entering the brain at a CONSTANT speed of (750 mph). This is not an option. It is 100% necessary for events to sound "live" to your brain.

A “carrier” implies a frequency or an AC component – The speed of sound is more like DC because of the continuous flow in one direction. (Not having to return back to the stage).

At no time is this technique used to "enhance" or create some dimensional perspective that is not literally contained in the original sound wave.  

The bottom line is the successful "conversion" of information that has gone through 2 types of mediums where the output method (final translation at the speaker) is talking the same language that you brain understands.

Roger