The Future of Audio Amplification

Trail and error is doing audio at the level of a child.

So many people asked me what do I mean with this?

I will tell you. Children will face many situations that they have no idea how to handle. Because they do not know the new situation and what the best way is to handle? So they react and hope it will work out ok.

I asked many people who work in audio for a long time about how they make their choices.

I will give you an example.

In 2017 I was in an audioshop and the person started to work in audio also in 1998 like I did. He received a new loudspeakercable and he wanted to test it.

So I asked him: this system overhere you will use and the loudspeakercable I see you will change?

He said yes.

So I asked him: which properties of sound you will take out when you take this loudspeakercable out?

Each audio product owns it’s DNA. I learned to extract the full DNA of each single audio product in any system. Because I had a mindset in 1998. I was aware that when I want to understand why each single amp, loudspeaker, source all sounds so different. I need to know the full dna of each individual part.

He said; I have no idea.

So I asked him; which properties of sound you will add when you replace it by the cable you want to test?

He said; I have no idea.

So I asked him; When you audition your system or the system of a client do you know why the sound and stage (only 2 aspects/properties of sound) is what you hear?

He said: I have no idea.

So I said: then you will never understand what you are doing.

It made him realize that he makes choices pure without any kind of foundation. So I said; when you do not know what you are doing, you are just like a child who does not understand how to make the right decisions.

And he said; you are so right.

People need to learn to think further. Trial and error is the main reason why most audio systems all sound so limited. Based on the fact that they are all incomplete. This means that they lack different aspects/properties of sound.

Each individual property of sound can influence your emotion. That is why each audiosystem what can reveal all the details and aspects/properties of a recording will always be a much more emotional and intense experience than any incomplete trial and error created system. And again this can be proven by sound.

The emotion of the music you always will find on the recording. That is why a system is needed that can reveal all the details and different aspects/properties of sound.

tweak1
No one has mentioned GaN class D yet. Seems to be a game changer

You need to get out more. 
https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1664763

teo_audio
If GaN acts like a V-Fet or a SIT, then they might be on to something.

And they are, the EPC guys ( Alex Lidow ceo ect) who invented the GAN, also invented the power mosfet many moons ago and sold the rights it to the world, for the moment only Technics are using the GAN with their limited availability $20k SER-R1 amps.

Chers George 

Many people see audio as a hobby and even believe (the same way as you believed in Santa Claus when you were little) on assuptions that you only can choose your personal system.

But the facts proof that almost all human beings cannot choose their own system the right way. And even this can be explained based on facts.

Sound and also music contains of many different aspects/properties of sound. When you are listening to your system most people can only distinguish 1 till 3 different aspects/properties of sound at the same time

But....when you want to make the best choices you need to be able to extract 8 different aspects/properties of sound with 1/10 of a second. There are not many people who have this level in insight.

This is why the whole world is doing audio by trail and error. It is based on the limitation in insight of human beings why it is still done by trial and error.

Many people who see audio as a hobby are their whole life busy with changing there system. They listen to it and often they focus on just one aspect/property of sound at the same time.

I give an example. (I had the same conversation with hundreds of people who see audio as their hobby)

You miss control and layering in the lowest frequencies. Most people will often try different cables to hope to solve the limitation they hear in the low frequencies.

After time they find a cable what gives a much better controled low freq. So they are happy and buy the cable what ’solved’ the problems.

They did choose this by trial and error. Based on the fact they they all have no idea which properties they took out by replaceing the cable for another one. Like they also have no idea which properties they brought in by the new cable.

And now you will read what sounds very familiar to you all. Because I saw the same kind of reaction hundreds of times before. After a few weeks they found out that the high frequencies are a lot less open than it was before.

So it all starts over again. And they will change one part for another one. It will never solve all your problems. Based on the fact that their choices will always be made by trial and error. So there never will be a real foundation.

The biggest limitation in audio is that most products do not own all apects/properties of sound. This means that they will always create a limitation in each single audio system you use them for.

It does not make sense which combination you will make, they will always create a limitation.