What happened to the "digital amp revolution"?

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At some point an AI (or even certain humans) might pass a turing test.

At some point sex robots may be indistinguishable from real people.

At some point someone may make a passable imitation of a 1984 Château Mouton Rothschild in a lab.

And at some point in time we may have audio and video recording and reproduction systems that really are exactly like "being there" (including "perfect" amplifiers).

For now I am not holding my breath waiting for any of the above, idle speculation is amusing, but futile. It is more interesting to speculate what we may do right now to make something better.

So, in point of fact, you are not prepared to answer a simple question without equivocation.

The prosecution rests its case. The witness may step down.

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Hi,

So, in point of fact, you are not prepared to answer a simple question without equivocation.

Your "question" was a wishy washy bunch of weasel words.

I agreed with you that at some point, at some time, something MIGHT happen, or MIGHT NOT.

Come on...

The prosecution rests its case. The witness may step down.

The "prosecution" might have a case, or it might not. Probably not, on the balance of the evidence. So the "witness" suggests the prosecution stands down, before it hurts itself too much.

Case dismissed.

Ciao T
 
And you know what caused "totally imagined misperception"?
Switching on conscious reasoning caused it.
You placed a big smiley, but I have the (conscious) feeling that you are quite serious.
Ah, well, it is the Richard Bandler I found at Wikipedia. I had no idea who he is. Though I do have some NLP stuff around here. In essence, we just have a different world view. Whenever someone suggests I'm dumb because I have a brain, deaf because I have ears, blind because I have eyes... I find they're selling something I'd rather not buy.
 
You placed a big smiley, but I have the (conscious) feeling that you are quite serious.
Ah, well, it is the Richard Bandler I found at Wikipedia. I had no idea who he is. Though I do have some NLP stuff around here. In essence, we just have a different world view. Whenever someone suggests I'm dumb because I have a brain, deaf because I have ears, blind because I have eyes... I find they're selling something I'd rather not buy.

You may buy or not, but I paid money for seminar attendance to learn practically how human perception is way different from what we think of it consciously. And how it can be used practically.

The main method of NLP is called Meta Model. It is very practical method, that allows to build model based on real life rather than on other models about how it works.
For example, such a way a model of creativity of Walt Disney was made. And it was used by many people to learn to be creative.
And so on.
In terms of NLP and Meta Model it does not matter what processes happen when we do something. What matters, which steps are necessary for the end result. It works by observing, questioning, then simplifying. If after removal of some step model stops working this step is considered as needed. And so on. I like this approach, because working with Meta Model you have you right to use some theories, but if according to your theory not needed step's removal causes the model to fail, or needed according to your theory step added causes the model to fail, the priority is for the life, not for your theory.
 
I did, actually. Because cross-over region of typical class D is shorter and smaller than in typical class B amp. And adds less of artifacts than in typical class AB amps.

It was actually a new ball on the playground. Anyone to take it? 😉

Ok, let me explain the rule of the game... We had some single ended class A amp with efficient speakers, it sounded nice... We thought that power dissipation is too high, and went on the efficiency path... Now we have 1 KW class D amp and low efficiency speakers. It sounds nice. The same like we had before.
Why 1 KW, and why so low efficiency speakers?
The answer is simple: we run out of cross-over distortions that we introduced starting going for the efficiency. The higher is the max power, the higher is it's ratio in respect to cross-over region. It is simple...

But did we gain something in terms of efficiency, even if 1KW amp in our room sounds as nice as 10W SE amp in the same room?
 
I don't want to turn this into a philosophy/psychology seminar. Unless there's a fee to collect.🙂 Creativity in the audio field is a bit different than being a Walt Disney. He had much more leeway with the abstract. Physics still rules the audio EE, "nature to be commanded must be obeyed." If the seminar made you a better master+slave, more power to you.
"the priority is for the life, not for your theory."
You've heard the old lab saying, "The engineers design it. The technicians make it actually work right."
(just a good-natured tweak all; don't be offended)
 
Creativity in the audio field is a bit different than being a Walt Disney.

According to NLP, no. 😀

In both cases visual imagination of the aim, kinestetic feeling of steps needed to implement it, internal dialogue that criticizes both, should go in circle, in the right order, otherwise they would interfere and disrupt the process of creation.

There is another interesting model obtained by NLP, called Model of Tesla, that includes recursive cycles. Tesla could construct the whole machine in his imagination, in details. It can be learned as well, and used in any other field of creativity, completely far from what Tesla did.
 
As far as I'm concerned, there's no point in stubbornness. You may say there's no difference, but the quote was, "Creativity in the audio field is a bit different than being a Walt Disney. He had much more leeway with the abstract. Physics still rules the audio EE,".
Try putting gloves and shorts on a real mouse 🙂
 
As far as I'm concerned, there's no point in stubbornness. You may say there's no difference, but the quote was, "Creativity in the audio field is a bit different than being a Walt Disney. He had much more leeway with the abstract. Physics still rules the audio EE,".
Try putting gloves and shorts on a real mouse 🙂

Gee and I though when there were more restraints you had to be more creative to overcome them!
 
I grew up in Siberia. Do you know what is most annoying in Siberia? No, not cold winters. Mosquitoes in summer. I was a student of physics & mathematics school, we learned off-line, and in summers were assembled in a camp near the river where lived in tents, meet our teachers (graduate students of Irkutsk University and some professors), and practiced math and physics. They were very creative when searched for problems to solve.

Once again, there are 2 most limiting beliefs:
1) That subconscious perception threshold and conscious recognition threshold are the same,
2) That everything that is below noise floor is inaudible.

There is one more limiting belief, more fundamental: that our models of physiology can be used to judge can we perceive something, or not. :D

Hi Wavebourn, Now I understand why you speak differently,your roots in Siberian shamanism.Cherish it.🙂
 
Hi,

I grew up in Siberia.

Poor you. I went through there with one stopover on the train from the then Soviet Far East, it was fun at the time, but I do not care to do it again.

Do you know what is most annoying in Siberia? No, not cold winters. Mosquitoes in summer.

Yes, the Mozzies are ferocious, I have not experienced Siberian Winters, but based on the Moscow winter I did experienced, the Winter must run the Mozzies a VERY close second...

And I am not sure if the Siberian Mozzies are really much worse than those in Nigeria or Ghana (or Jah forbid) the Kongo. The ones in Africa carry really nasty versions of Malaria to boot.

To calculate precision of hearing needed to locate a mosquito flying around body and kill it without paying attention. It was a very fun problem, and as the result we could not believe that it is ever possible, while it works in reality, to hear so precise!

Actually, you do not ONLY locate the Mozzie by hearing, you also notice the tiny, but non-zero air current it generates, mainly (in my case at least) from the thermal impact.

It gets more confusing if you hear one Mozzie in one place, feel another approaching you in a second place while you notice one biting you in a third place. In Africa I could sometimes tell the seams and stitches of my Clothes from the Mozzie bites.

Once again, there are 2 most limiting beliefs:
1) That subconscious perception threshold and conscious recognition threshold are the same,
2) That everything that is below noise floor is inaudible.

There is one more limiting belief, more fundamental: that our models of physiology can be used to judge can we perceive something, or not. 😀

There is a fourth one, namely that in carrying out a given task the human system relies only on sensual cues and only on a single set of them.

Ciao T
 
Actually, you do not ONLY locate the Mozzie by hearing, you also notice the tiny, but non-zero air current it generates, mainly (in my case at least) from the thermal impact.


It does not matter. Like, one very knowledgeable fellow tried to convince me that low frequency do not carry any musical information because we can't hear 20 Hz since our ears don't have such possibility. What's the difference, if I hear them by diaphragm under my belly, or by some other senses?
 
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