Hi Unsound, Krel are Class A SS amp. . . how would you characterize them? Aren't they caracterized to be relatively forward sounding? G. |
Thank you Dave I have no information on upcoming breakthroughs in time travel, nor on the ability of an amplifier to speed up the tempo of a musical performance. On the much more mundane topic of the application of time domain compression/expansion in formant-based and concatenative speech synthesis, I invite you to experiment with the open source NVDA screen reader:
httP//www.nvda.org
You will discover that you can make significant changes in speech rate. G. |
Apologies Dave, I have no information on 'KAPAX' either. |
Oh wow, you guys mean that I can really change the time signature on a song by getting a different amp? I always thought that Bernstein takes Dvorak a bit too slowly. . . what amp should I select to speed up playing time by about 20%? |
Thank you Tom, sadly, you are correct. Performers often take obscene liberties with clearly specified time signatures or stylistic practices, resulting in totally bizarre tempos of performances and recordings.
Rythmic signatures are a different matter all together, and are subject to their own special kind of manglings.
Eldartford, you are right of course, about time domain compression/expansion. I have played with analog time domain compression of speech streams since the mid 70s. . . . and in those days results were pretty horrendous. Now days, using advanced algorithms, reasonable intellegibility can be achieved by speeding up digital recordings of speech up to 3X. Text to speech engines (TTS) can yield intelligible speech upwards of 500WPM by adopting differing compression scales for different phonemes. I have heard formant-based TTS engine actually running at 1200WPM, but do not pretend to understand them at such speech rates. G. |
Jim, is there an info page on Delta Sigma amps? And what type of amps are they? Tubes, SS, switching? Class A, A/B, D, T, other? Thanks G. |
Thank you Jim. . . did not really find the info I was looking for about underlying technology, class of operation, single ended vs symmetrically balanced, damping factor. Interesting about the Kosmos conductor. . . more conductive than Silver? What is its resistivity value at 20C? Will DS be shown at RMAF in the Fall? Thanks, G. |
Thank you Jim, unfortunately 'greater than Silver' does not mean anything to me. I am glad the product also uses graphite powder to its advantage. Graphite is naturally abundant,
inexpensive, and easy to work with. Any more hard info you can share about Sigma Delta Amps? |
Jim, once again, will Delta Sigma be shown at RMAF? I doubt that simple information such as SS/tube/switching technology, class of operation, input impedance, damping factor, etc . . . can be deemed proprietary. . . particularly in devices having the exalted price points of the SDs. Now talking about the Kosmos conductor. . . asserting that it is more conductive and less resistive than Silver is what I deem an 'extraordinary claim'. . . nothing wrong with that, but such a claim does require some clear form of evidence. . . or regretably it suffers in credibility. |
Jim, this thread is very specifically discussing pure class A devices. There does not appear to be any reason to discuss Delta Sigma products if they operate in class A/B. And please watch out that claim of conductivity greater than Silver. . . making extraordinary claims without any evidence is a tricky business, particularly if the claim is left rather vague. G. |
"just live"
I apologize, but I do not understand. . . could you pls explain? Thanks, G. |
Audphile1, must be the Summer heat in Austin and the hot sauce. . . I usually calm down by late October. . . I'll have the last post removed. apologies everyone! G. |
