GaN-based Class D power amps
IF you can undercut very expensive high end gear with not quite so expensive other gear that delivers sound people think competes or maybe even sounds better and make a better profit at it then that is a good thing for all except sellers of very expensive high end gear. Not to mention Class D is most efficient and runs cooler so you save on power bills. |
contaminateNo, sorry Guido you Audioman mentioned Rowland and Pascal. Not me. I took it back one stage further where the Class-D modules really come from, Sanway China. It’s perfectly valid to show what’s going on in this industry, your upset because your very pro Rowland, I understand and I did in the very next post say that the Continuum was the only model, so far, as I’ve not seen inside others, YET Jeff Rowland gear is always very expensive. I guess that is part of his design package.That’s an expensive box to say the least. Exactly the point I was making, those exact same Sanway boards were $100 each on Alibaba in lots of 10, so god knows what Pascal and Rowland were getting them for, and the Continuum was some $10k without extras. Cheers George |
georgehifi4,762 posts01-14-2019 2:51pm http://www.ti.com/power-management/gallium-nitride/overview.html Here we go hopefully, one of the majors have got the rights to make it, watch Class-D take off now, and finally compete with the best of Linear amps in the mids and highs and beat it in the bass as it always did. Cheers George ☝🏻☝🏻 One of George’s posts from another thread that is relevant here. |
There was a car audio amp shootout done about an year or so back and the only Class D amp to make the top tier list was a GaN based amp,
Soundigital GaN 300.2d
. Here is the link. https://issuu.com/diogoianaconi/docs/amplifier_shootout |
Yep looks like GaN technology has infiltrated into car audio also and beat the competitors, the SoundDigital SD300.2 https://ibb.co/80x8L1CCheers George |
