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Tenor Audio

In the late 1990's, Tenor began an ambitious research & development project to better understand high end audio performance. Technical specifications and measurements simply did not explain why the musical performance rendered by various noteworthy brands failed to render a convincing live musical experience. Intensive analysis and subjective listening of both live and recorded material of numerous high end systems persuaded us that the musicality of an amplifier could not be determined by conventional wisdom alone. To build a more convincing musical amplifier, Tenor would have to pioneer new technology. Virtually every amplifier in existence today is designed to reproduce a static sine wave or square wave with the following characteristics: • minimum distortion • maximum linearity • large bandwidth • low residual noise into a specified load Unfortunately this "ideal" situation is far from the reality of a musical signal. Music is a very complex signal where a multitude of frequencies - each with their own delicate harmonic content in constant change of amplitude and time - is played into the ever changing load of a typical loudspeaker. These changes can be relatively slow or very fast and all of this happens simultaneously or in combination. As one can imagine, it is not at all like a steady sine wave @1KHz or a square wave. We of course acknowledge that this standard test method is valid and necessary to evaluate basic amplifier parameters but certainly not sufficient and all encompassing to measure the real musicality of an amplifier. After all, the ultimate judge must be our ears. Tenor set out to design an amplifier that would reproduce music and not just test tones. This became a very difficult undertaking - but very logical in our opinion. We first had to pioneer new specifications that would actually reflect the musicality of an amplifier. This proprietary technology developed to solve these complex issues became known at Tenor as Harmonic Structural Integrity. Most amplifie

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