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
"Oh Brother!!
Off topic rants cause me to glaze over.
Then I skip them and look for real information.
Thank you Roger, and all who have shared pertinent info.

"Never argue with a fool, onlookers might not be able to tell the difference" Poor Richard"

The only one I see ranting here is you. I suppose every organ grinder has to have a monkey.


Roger wrote,

"Ok - so if we already have the capability to measure things that are nano scale and you are assuming it can be applied to sound reproduction - why haven’t we done it already? Has the audio industry been wasting its time when all they had to do is use the magic tools we already have?"

obviously measurements have been made of atomic particles for what, a centrury? Of the diameter of a neutron, the mass of an electron, the wavelength of a photon and so forth. They even determined the mass of a photon. Uh, it’s zero. Like your amp’s distortion. So Measurement at the nano scale is nothing new. For audio, one can measure the sensitivity of extremely sensitive preamps, you know, the ones with noise figures 130 dB down. And THD 0.0001%. Those are mighty small numbers, no? The size of a pinpoint of data on the CD, any idea how small that is, or of the space between the data tracks? Or of the diameter of the laser beam? Next thing you know you'll be calling the data quantum.
Roger wrote,

"Because we are talking apples and oranges. Reed Solomon does absolutely nothing in the analog world. It only deals with on/off. I was afraid to use the term "jitter" when describing my work but I thought it might trigger some kinship to the concept of tiny amounts of interference or disturbance. This is why I prefaced it with the term "analog". I realize it is probably an oxymoron since jitter is deviation or displacement of a pulse in a digital signal. It may only have added some confusion to the correction process I use which is 100% analog and also lives in the nano scale."

Yes, jitter is a term used in the digital world. Maybe you can use the analogy of the electron microscope and trying to take a clear photo of the subject under view. Without vibration isolation you would only see a blur. And extending this analogy (get it, analogy?) a little further, it was actually a microscope vibration isolation stand that was pressed into service as the first highly touted audiophile vibration isolation stand. The Vibraplane. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. In any case, I’m afraid vibration isolation has been around with us in this hobby for at least twenty years. Maybe your amp would run more perfectly if you isolated it or is it immune?
Geoffkait, I think it is disingenuous of you to talk about measurement as much as you do, as I doubt you have ever had any measurement of any of you products. 

I do agree that measurements would be great for valid concepts, but I know THD is invalid.

But enough of this endless palaver. Listen to the amp, before you get any reading of what you write. 
geoffkait

Maybe your amp would run more perfectly if you isolated it or is it immune?

Actually it is not immune - as tbg pointed out he was able to deal with some vibrations affecting the amp in his system.