Unless you're a rich recording engineer who record and listen to your own stuff on high end equipment, I doubt anyone can claim their stuff is neutral. I get the feeling, if I were this guy, I'd be disappointed in the result. May be I'm wrong.
"I don’t need to crack the text books to know that if I push a cup off a table that the next thing it will do is hit the floor."
I don’t need to crack a text book to know the sky is blue, either. But neither statement, while a truism, is relevant in this discussion. We call that a Strawman argument.
If you step back and try to see the overall process, it becomes simpler. The electronics is the only part of the signal path that differs as a medium from the air in the hall at the venue and air in your living room
The live performance literally gets lost in the "electronic" translation. If you have a circuit stage with a gain of 10 Measuring the "exactness" of the 10.000 v rms out for 1.000 v rms in focuses your attention on the vertical axis. The real crime is how much energy from the 1 khz sine wave has been compromised by the amplifying method. IOW if we look at the horizontal time domain we see more valuable information about the constant nature of the delivery speed. Turntables have wow and flutter references, digital devices have jitter well analog amplifiers also have dynamic timing issues.
To answer your question about how significant is the variation - It turns out it is almost everything. Here is a statement sure to get people upset but its true.
Ninety percent of the problems with systems that don't sound right can be blamed on the electronics. This is because they are responsible for the destruction of vital cues about where things are located in a performance.
I know the argument about how much distortion speakers have will do more damage and not allow you to even hear a lower amounts of distortion elsewhere in the system. That simply is not true. Here is why:
Take phase errors and crossovers etc. Whatever they do to the signal - it is stable. It is not dynamic. If you had an rc circuit to roll off the highs at 10khz of course it would sound like there are no highs but whatever image you manage to get from it would be stable because it is static IOW the diffusion remains the same. Your soundstage may not fully appear correctly but there would be no dynamic "modulation" of location information to scatter the vectors of sound objects.
Analog amps modulate the velocity of the passing signal enough to cause confusion in the mind of the listener. The amount of modulation needed to diffuse an image is in the parts per billion.
Ok so we all knew the cup would fall. Moving on...
Can you tell me what happens if the velocity of an audio signal entering an amplifier leaves at a different velocity?
And if that can be plugged into your formulas, why wasn't this fixed a long time ago?
Why did it take decades for someone to notice the real problems? I'll tell you one of the reasons.
Because it is not in your text books. I thank God every day for keeping me out of college. I would be just as confused as you guys. Don't get me wrong - If you have seen my white paper you can see that I have done all my homework. It just looks different from your homework.
"Can you tell me what happens if the velocity of an audio signal entering an amplifier leaves at a different velocity?"
-- What happens when the audio signal from the speakers travels at different velocities to the listener depending on the room temperature?
"And if that can be plugged into your formulas, why wasn't this fixed a long time ago?"
-- You haven't shown there's a problem yet. The cup falling on the floor just didn't do it for me.
"Why did it take decades for someone to notice the real problems? I'll tell you one of the reasons. Because it is not in your text books. I thank God every day for keeping me out of college. I would be just as confused as you guys. Don't get me wrong - If you have seen my white paper you can see that I have done all my homework. It just looks different from your homework."
- You will have a uphill battle if your white paper has technical "issues." You might be onto something, who knows. But it's not necessarily a very convincing argument to claim off the bat that your logic or your research doesn't agree with (all) text books on the subject. There's nothing wrong with being self taught, not necessarily.
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