Pure class A amplifiers = "slow" amplifiers?

Hello,

I know Guidocorona was just joking with his post. ... but ... I just would like to clarify for those who may not know. The tempo of a song ( how fast or slow it is played ) has nothing to do with the time signature. Two totally different things.

Best,
Tom

Thank you Tom, sadly, you are correct. Performers often take obscene liberties with clearly specified time signatures or stylistic practices, resulting in totally bizarre tempos of performances and recordings.
Rythmic signatures are a different matter all together, and are subject to their own special kind of manglings.
Eldartford, you are right of course, about time domain compression/expansion. I have played with analog time domain compression of speech streams since the mid 70s. . . . and in those days results were pretty horrendous. Now days, using advanced algorithms, reasonable intellegibility can be achieved by speeding up digital recordings of speech up to 3X. Text to speech engines (TTS) can yield intelligible speech upwards of 500WPM by adopting differing compression scales for different phonemes. I have heard formant-based TTS engine actually running at 1200WPM, but do not pretend to understand them at such speech rates. G.

After reading G's jibberish I am confident that someday there will be time travel:)

Thank you Dave I have no information on upcoming breakthroughs in time travel, nor on the ability of an amplifier to speed up the tempo of a musical performance. On the much more mundane topic of the application of time domain compression/expansion in formant-based and concatenative speech synthesis, I invite you to experiment with the open source NVDA screen reader:
httP//www.nvda.org
You will discover that you can make significant changes in speech rate. G.

G, you are an organic based lifeform right? Not cybernetic! Maybe your from KAPAX...anyway, I'll check out the sight.

Cheers,
Dave