Bandwidth Limitations Of Class D Amps??


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Audiogon member Kijanki said :
Some people argue that class D, as good as it is for the money, cannot really compete with best traditional SS amp. I can see that, especially with still limited bandwidth...
What are the bandwidth limitations of class D amps, and is it audible?
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128x128mitch4t
Mitch,

* Certain legacy class D amps, for example the ones based on ICEpower modules, tend to take an excruciating amount of time to break in... Sometimes more than 1200 hours. Until they are stabilized, both bottom ends and treble ends can sound foreshortened, wooden, or even harsh.

* After break in, I have experienced some legacy class D amps to become very musical, while others have remained wooden or "matter of fact". The frequency extension and musicality of the final result may have to do with the details of the amplifier design, such as power regulation, and input isolation, and some amplifier designers may have been more successful than others in working around the idiosyncrasies of the now legacy ICEpower technology.

* The new generation of class D modules may constitute substantial engineering departures from their predecessors, and there is no evidence yet that they suffer of inherent bandwidth limitations.

G.
Mitch4t,
any date for that Kijanki's post?
Because he seems to be using a Rowland 102 - class-D - power amplifier himself these days!

I cannot see why a class-D would have any inherent bandwidth limitations. If the class-D amp is correctly designed for 20-20KHz bandwidth I cannot see why, with today's level of technology - why it would be bandwidth limited....