georgehifi,
Over six hundred years ago, adventurous explorers were looking for financial backing to sail west on the Atlantic from Europe to see what was out there and ,hopefully, discover new lands. At the time, early explorers limited their explorations to sailing around the coast of Africa always keeping the land in sight and never venturing out to open uncharted waters.
This is why these first explorers didn’t discover much beyond the trade routes from Europe to the East and back. The reason they were reluctant to venture out to uncharted waters and truly discover new things was because of the ’Flat Earth Theory’. The Catholic church was very influential around this time and it, along with other misguided opponents of scientific discovery, propagated the ancient unproven theory that the earth was flat and, if you sailed too far west, your ship and everything in it would eventually reach earth’s edge and fall off into God only knows what.
I mentioned the above because your ’Low Class D Switching Frequency Theory’ reminds me of the ’Flat Earth Theory’ in many ways:
1.Just as the ’Flat Earth Theory’ (FET) postponed some early explorers from discovering new lands, your ’Low Class D Switching Frequency Theory’ (LCDSFT) could possibly postpone some of the more gullible audio explorers among us from discovering new audio fidelity in their systems.
2.Just as the FET promotion kept explorers close to the safety of the shore for awhile, your LCDSFT promotion could keep some of the more gullible audio explorers among us close to the safety of traditional linear amps for awhile.
3.Just as the FET proponents used repeated claims of the false affects of an unproven theory to mysteriously prevent the advancement of scientific discovery, you use repeated claims of the false affects of your unproven LCDSFT to mysteriously prevent the advancement of system discovery.
4.There’s obviously more allegorical meat on this bone but I’m stuffed.
You never responded to my earlier questions, possibly from this or another thread, about whether there’s any scientific basis for your theory that current class D switching frequencies are too low and negatively affect the sound of class D amps in the audible range. You also failed to respond about whether or not you have personally heard any sonic anomalies in the sound of class D amps you’ve listened to.and, if so, whether you could describe what these sonic anomalies sound like.
When I first read about your theory, I perhaps foolishly listened to several very familiar and very high resolution (96kHz/24 bit) music files I have trying, as best I know how, to be hyper-critical of the sound quality in an effort to hear if there was any subjective evidence I could actually detect to determine whether your theory had any merit.
Well, after a few hours of failing to detect even a hint of a whiff of a scintilla of even a possible twinkle in the eye of even a single sonic anomaly, I decided it was safe to relax in the knowledge that my class D amps had no sonic anomalies in the audible range, at least that I could subjectively detect with my possibly tin ears.
Subsequently, I searched the internet for any scientific or even any subjective or anecdotal evidence in support of your LCDSFT and discovered there is zero scientific evidence to support your theory and the only subjective or anecdotal evidence I discovered was numerous google references of your thread postings here and on various other audio forums.
I find it hard to fathom why you have repeatedly made false claims of the false affects of an unproven theory on Audiogon and other audio forums.about class D amps. I tend to doubt you do it for some twisted personal version of fun and believe there must be some hidden motivation for someone to so diligently,consistently and repeatedly put forth the time and effort required, as you have, unless they personally judge achieving their mysterious goal as sufficiently motivating.
Don’t worry George Hi-fi, I doubt anyone expects you to actually reveal your hidden motivation or agenda.
Fortunately for current and future class D amp owners, repeated suggestions of non-existent sonic anomalies produced by their amps are not audible to any human I’m aware of.
Even in the infinitesimally small chance you’re theory actually has an iota of merit, the truth is if the thousands (millions?) of current class D amp users cannot hear these elusive, currently not to have been heard by human ears. very suspect and apparently extremely quiet sonic anomalies then they, by definition, do not exist.
Class D=Trash, my Ash!
Later,
Tim
