So you calling Rubbish! instead of calmly trying to explain yourself, is not hostile.
Correct.
Its simply factual; I have in fact often calmly explained myself. I've often received complements for my patience in dealing with your insults and mis-information, but since I've never met you, its hard to take any of the slings and arrows personally so I've no reason to be angry. I do feel a need to correct misinformation where it occurs, as a rising tide raises all boats.
Regarding feedback. George, do you realize that all the solid state amps of traditional design you've pointed to employ feedback? How do you explain that they are alright and a class D isn't? In common vernacular this is known as 'talking out of both sides of your mouth'. In legal terms its known as 'dirty hands'. 'Dirty Hands' is the legal idea that one cannot reserve for themselves a right that they do not also confer to others.
At this point all the objections you've raised have been debunked, including the one about me being in 'product protection mode'. I think that you do not understand my motivations: right after high school, the very next day, I was employed by Allied Radio Shack as a service technician in their 5-state service facility. I enjoyed working there for years and used that income to put myself thru engineering school at the University of Minnesota MIT. In the late 1970s I started Atma-Sphere. As you know that involved tubes for a very long time, but I missed the troubleshooting I performed in the service industry. So I'm active on this and other sites, often answering questions that have nothing to do with my business. IOW I do it because I enjoy it.
Now I can see that this is hard for some people to understand. But that's how it is. I do this because I enjoy it. Because of my experience as both technician and engineer (which can sometimes be at odds, technicians often find out about engineering errors before the designer does), I do feel a certain compulsion to correct misinformation. For reasons unknown to me (as I've no idea of your motivations) this means that you and I cross swords quite often. I see that as unfortunate. But from an ethical point of view I'm a bit between a rock and hard place when it comes to mis-information; if I sit back and say nothing, people will often flush perfectly good money down the loo. Its a bit like what happens when tyrannical forces come into power:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Of course this is about education rather than power. FWIW though, willfully ignorant is almost indistinguishable from just plain stupid.
