[Audio Empire]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:58:10 -0700, ScottW wrote
(in article ):

On Mar 19, 5:48am, Audio Empire wrote:
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:21:36 -0700, ScottW wrote
(in article ):

On Mar 18, 7:38am, Audio Empire wrote:
This ought to convince even the hardest heads among us that the term "Ideal
Amplifier" is a legitimate technical term with a concrete, and well
understood meaning. Again, it has nothing to do with taste or aesthetics. It
simply means what it means.

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplifier

"An ideal amplifier would be a totally linear device, but real amplifiers
are
only linear within limits."

Before the argument that no such thing as an ideal amp exists is
posed, =A0I would add that the limits within which audio amplifiers must
be linear (including the limits of said linearity) are so benign that
ideal amplifiers within the limits required for audio amps are the
norm rather than the exception.

ScottW

Irrelevant to the point, Scott. Just admit that you were wrong and that the
term "Ideal Amplifier" is, in fact, a legitimate technical term that has
nothing whatsoever to do taste or aesthetics, and move on.

Actually, I (ScottW) was trying to address the point that "Scott" had
previously made in another post.

Having worked a bit on broadband power amplifiers for digital cellular
communications I am painfully aware of how relatively easy it is to
show that for all practical purposes, the technically ideal audio amp,
no matter how sterile sounding to some, has been around for quite a
few decades.

ScottW


Sorry that I got my Scotts confused. 8^)