While these rules of thumb are helpful perhaps to people such as yourself designing amplifiers aimed at as broad a segment of the market as possible, they are not "laws" or universally applicable "truths" like the law of conservation of energy or the laws of thermodynamics. As a result, they can not be relied upon on to be an accurate predictor on an individual basis. Thus, the guy shelling out $5K for an amp would be best advised to trust his own perceptions and tastes and to listen to the amp in his system, in his room, to form his opinions rather than rely on the perceptions, tastes, and opinions of others.
Fletcher Munson is a bit more variable, but the masking principle isn't. Its what made MP3s possible. Also, how humans sense sound pressure does not change from individual to individual; generally, the higher ordered harmonics are used. This is really easy to demonstrate using simple test equipment. Imagine a world where every individual used entirely different hearing perceptual rules! It would be a good basis for a scifi novel 😉
The patent involves the use of a Circlotron to reduce deadtime. If you are using GaNFETs, the inductive kick of the output filter coil is what really turns the device off (assuming the gate is already off); to allow that to happen a certain amount of deadtime has to exist. As it is there is still less deadtime in a GaNFET design as opposed to a MOSFET design.
Too many don't understand the difference between their subjective opinions and objective fact.
Being objective is a worthy struggle despite it being impossible.
FWIW we've done lots of comparisons and we have a lot of feedback from the field at this point- from a variety of customers that know our prior work. The feedback is surprisingly consistent, in the face of not knowing about any other feedback we've received.
