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


The new versions are called X-10s and the amp is on its third version or Mark III. This truly provides holograph imagine unlike anything I've heard before. On symphonic orchestras, one can hear the first violins. I have never heard an amp sound this precise.

In reality, I doubt if any amplifier can rival it. I certainly have never heard any that do so. Every album is so involving.

The preamp has yet to get a remote but is nevertheless, quite striking.
tbg
GK

Let's put it this way...
I'm convinced if I show you the exact process including all schematic diagrams, it still would make no sense to you how it works.

I have done this with top EE's in the government. It went right over their heads. What does that tell you? That I'm a genius? No. Just that I did the hard homework and found something everyone else missed because they are stuck thinking inside the box.

You have to treat your system not as a "stereo" but rather as a translator of  information suitable for consumption by the brain.

Your brain is the end user.

I found the contamination that breaks down the [outside] link to the ear-brain system. Without using quantum physics - that link cannot be accurate enough.

It successfully removes velocity based "analog jitter" in the time domain.
It locks down the correct playback speed and guarantees it is [constant].

This allows the smooth transfer of the sound [WAVE] phenomenon to flow toward you as if if was happening in the same room.

How difficult a concept is it to grasp?
 
To your collective delight I think I'm done trying to explain it.

Listen and enjoy.

Roger
Roger wrote,

"I have done this with top EE’s in the government. It went right over their heads."

With top EEs in the Government? And it went over their heads? Surprise, surprise.

"What does that tell you? That I’m a genius? No. Just that I did the hard homework and found something everyone else missed because they are stuck thinking inside the box."

If you’re trying to say that there is a status quo, well, duh!

geoff kait
machina dynamica
no goats no glory
All the good engineers i know think out of the box all the time.  

All the the tech talk nobody can understand has no meaning obviously.  The product will live or die on its value proposition and sonic merits like all do. 

I agree with atmosphere that talking about things nobody understands  does not do any justice.   Just my two cents.  


Mapman wrote,

"All the good engineers i know think out of the box all the time.

All the the tech talk nobody can understand has no meaning obviously. The product will live or die on its value proposition and sonic merits like all do.

I agree with atmosphere that talking about things nobody understands does not do any justice. Just my two cents."

Pardon me for saying so but that seems to be an argument for limiting discussions to topics or subjects that are either common knowledge or understood by everyone, including the man under the bridge. If we limit what people can say to what someone believes should be easily understood by everyone then who will be the judge and who will be the jury?  If there is going to be a break out from the dull repetitive rehashing of the same old thing we must not constrain discussion to fit anyone’s preconceived notion of what’s allowable, what is and what isn’t scientifically possible or correct. What’s there to be afraid of? Stop trying to put everything in a box.  

No goats no glory


I agree.

I think after the back and forth so far in this thread we may have found a common understanding of the issue and hopefully some solution.

After all look at the attention being paid to the physical stabilization of cables and racks and of the chassis. Airborne  vibrations are a valid contamination in the system. We know that "tiptoes" and other spikes put under the gear help to remove or dampen the effects of bass and more from penetrating and returning to the path of the source. The rings placed on tubes to cut down on microphonics is another example of the pesky problem of physical instability. 

Low jitter clocks and the like in our digital sources again are all meant to  eliminate or suppress the damage done to the otherwise smooth flow if information.

We know that the unchecked tiny micro vibrations will limit the purity of the musical presentation. 

The key to understanding how it hurts the presentation is that it affects the [velocity] of the delivery system. IOW it is not just an interfering note or sound added to the mix - it is the fact that it is a mechanism of alteration or modulation of the base delivery method. Your image is [shaking] as a result of the vibration issues caused by the physical world entering the chain.

Unless you had very sophisticated lab gear to examine the actual micro vibration at work - it is safe to assume that we know it exist by the fact that calming things down physically is quite noticeable acoustically. You don't have to measure the tiny vibrations to know that they are there.

In light of the awareness of this "invisible bug" it is readily accepted as fact that its presence is destructive and that it will react to attempts (mostly by trial and error) to suppress it.

If you consider what I have found and were able to address as simply more dynamic interference caused by the improper handling of an analog signal traveling through an amplifier, then I think we are on the same page.

The most startling aspect of the analog "jitter" is how bad it is compared to other destructive forces caused by the physical world. The unstable velocity in the amplifier happens at nano-scopic levels (far below measurable levels). But again - knowing it is there and making attempts to catch it happening based on [theory] is no different than you placing lead weights on boxes and draping your cables over insulators knowing that you are blindly affecting the issue.

Once you can suppress the analog jitter, other physical work done to keep things "stable" are much more obvious because that is all you are left with.

Roger

No curiosity no discovery