Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl?

don_c5509-04-2017 5:58pm

don_c55 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,025 posts 09-05-2017 at 02:42am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Class D is second rate sound quality, not in SOTA league at all!
don_c55 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,025 posts 09-05-2017 at 11:44pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Eric I built the low TIM Leach amp from Audio magazine, and followed through with the next year of 100+ circuit changes in the following issues. I also owned Leach’s L S R&D amps from his company. He did not believe in matching transistors, and his amps were "average" sounding for their time! His article just re-hashed what was known in amplifier circuits at the time. No breakthroughs IMO. TIM was just "frequency overload" in fancy talk.