[Dick Pierce[_2_]]

Audio Empire wrote:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:05:30 -0700, Dick Pierce wrote
(in article ):
the early ones (1967-1971) were biased so far into class "B" that they
exhibited a very apparent crossover notch distortion.

To be technically accurate, Class B operation is not a region
or continuum, it is a very specific bias point where the
conduction angle is exactly 180 degrees. Pushing it further
than that is not "so far into class B", it's into class
C operation.

To be fair, I think that most of us know that.

I don't know that "most of us know that," and, unless
you've done the survey, I suspect that you don't either.

If past posts in this and other newsgroups over the years
is any indication, then there is in fact, a significant
portion of the high-end audio readership that does NOT
know that. It is to them, as one audience, that my reply
was directed.

Further, your statement "biased so far into class 'B'"
seems to imply the assumption that class B is not a
boundary, but a region. Let's take the same grammar but
in a slightly different context:

"I never did understand was why my friend drove so far
into the border between the USA and Canada that he exhibited
a very apparent 'eh' at the end of each sentence, eh?"

Unless the asumption is the border between the USA and
Canada is a region and not a line, it;s really difficult
to imagine driving "so far into the border." He's either
in the USA, or he's in Canada, or has one set of wheels in
one and the other.

The issue of technical accuracy is important, not to the
"most of us that know," but to the many that don't. I don't
know how many myths and half-truths take on a life of their
own when bystanders to a technical discussion see terminology
bandied about willy-nilly by "most of us that know," with the
assumption that, well, "most of us know."

Actually, in the high-end world, there are those that would
say most forcefully, that "most of us know" that cables make
enormous differences, that "most of us know" that digital
can't possibly capture analog waveforms because of stuff
'missing between the samples," that "most of us know" that the
output of a CD player MUST look like a staircase, that "most
of us know" a whole nunch of things that simply aren't so.

You might assume, reasonably or otherwise, that "most of us
know" something. I, on the other hand, don't think it's
necessarily either a good idea or of service to those, even
if it's but a single person, who aren't "most of us."

And, by the way, which "us" are you talking about?

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