D-SONIC SOA Class-D Core Amps. The best Class-D ?


Owner/Designer Dean Deacon of D-Sonic in Houston in recent months dropped using the B&O ICE amps which he now only uses in the surround channels of his multi-channel home theater amps. He now uses a new Class-D amp in all of his Magnum2 mono and two channel amps which he states is the most technically advanced Class-D amp on the market, called the SOA Class-D core amps. The recent review in 6Moons of his new M2-1500M amp concludes its the closest that Class-D has ever come to tube amps in the upper mid-range and high frequencies.
Anyone bought or heard recently the D-Sonic M2-1500M or the M2-600M? What are your opinions?
audiozen
Pope Guido..no need to write a long winded book every time you post a reply. Phew! We all know your a reviewer of sorts. Eric Lichte with Stereophile did a report on the Marten M amps last winter after hearing them and stated they sound like very powerful tube amps and have the voice of Class A solid state amps. Regarding D-Sonic, I mentioned earlier that Dennis Deacon told me in conversation that his top amp is a Pascal and his M3-600M's are Abletec's. He only admitted this after I emailed him pics of the amps with the tops off disclosing the word Abletec stamped on the circuit board and matching the pics to the models on the Pascal and Abletec sites.
Thank you Audiozen for encouraging me to contain the volume of my writing output... As you kindly point out, in quasi Zdanovian censoring zeal, there is no need for me to be expansive... I could be mercifully telegraphic instead,... If I enjoyed that form of terseness, of course, so to spare your limited patience. Unfortunately, I do not tend to the epigrammatic, but much prefer to freely share with my friends what I am excited about, and have experienced first hand, or at least I have learned from primary sources... Hence you might sadly expect my future scribblings to be comparably detailed and similarly tedius.

AudioPax vobiscum!
Papa Aloysius XXIV
(a.k.a. Guido)
Would like to hear more impressions from those who own or have heard more of these newer Class D amps.

The huge price range for amps built around the same common core modules is an interesting thing in of itself.
Audiozen, there you go again.

If Guido is the "Pope" then you must be "King Henry VIII"!

No one here is following your "proclamations".

You make no sense with your statements that D-sonic is the best, because it uses two different class d tech. Are they both the best? OK, lets say it is the one in the Marten amps. I quote you "the world's finest Class D amp, the M amp from Marten at $45K a pair." Oh, ONLY $45,000 a PAIR. Is that all. Was it not you who ridiculed the Veritas and the Mola-Mola for being SO expensive. That is not a question.

You seem to want your cake and eat it too.

Why are you attacking Guido. He has said he would like to hear the D-Sonic amps sometime.

Is It because you are afraid of him comparing them and speaking the truth of what he hears. That is sure the way it is coming across.

I also would like to hear the D-Sonic sometime. As others. I have heard so far, the DAC, Spectron, ARC, Bel Canto, Mola-Mola, Veritas, DIY NC400 and a few more.





Hifial..The Veritas amps are a rip off for what they cost. Period! You get just over four pounds of Ncore product in each mono block. Merrill does not make available at all interior shots of his amps. He wants you to ignore whats behind the curtain. The Marten M amps designed by Bostrom are in a completely different league. Each mono block weighs 100 pounds due to their massive transformers and large capacitor banks combined with the most advanced Class-D technology on the market. Patrik Bostrom is a force to be reckoned with and its just a matter of time that Audiophiles will recognize that he is on top of the Class-D game globally.