[lcrim]

Nathan:
Here is a link to a Sony marketing pdf that happens to contain the clearest explanation of Sony's implementation of digital amplification that I have found.
Remember , its a marketing document not a technical white paper and it was originally posted on this board by brunob.

http://www.docs.sony.com/release/STRDA3000ES_TWP.pdf

hope this helps

Larry

[DVV]

Nathan:
Here is a link to a Sony marketing pdf that happens to contain the clearest explanation of Sony's implementation of digital amplification that I have found.
Remember , its a marketing document not a technical white paper and it was originally posted on this board by brunob.

http://www.docs.sony.com/release/STRDA3000ES_TWP.pdf

hope this helps

Larry

A good link, Larry, thanks.

You are right, it's more than a little promo orientated, but it's well worth reading nevertheless. Also, let's not forget that Sony was the first Japanese company to get into digital big time, with Yamaha following close at its heels. Surely that experience has to stand for something.

I admit to being slightly biased towards Sony in things digital, as I spent a few years working with their pro equipment - more than enough to see what they are capable of when they set their mind on it. But let's also not forget that today's CD standards were initially developed by Philips, but were finalized with Philips and Sony working together.

Cheers,
DVV

[RussKon]

Is there some kind of FAQ somewheres for digital amplification and how it works?  Cause I can't quite fathom how an amplifier can be "digital" in the first place.  

here's a tech pdf from the tripath website.... pretty technical....

http://www.tripath.com/downloads/TLD401.pdf

[WEEZ]

Everybody has their favorites; Everyone claims to have the "best";etc.etc. blah,blah,blau...

I've heard tube systems that sound real and I've heard tube systems that sound like toobs;

I've heard solid state systems that sound real and I've heard solid state systems that sound like transistor radios only louder;

I don't hear in digital, but maybe some do.

I'm for what sounds real and believable- whatever the technology. Maybe that's why so many are using a combination of technologies- tubes and solid state in the same system- or even within the same component.

In the end- it's all about low noise, good harmonic structure- and distortion levels that are below our ability to perceive as un-natural.

There is, after all, some distortion in real music.