"D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why?

Muralman1, we're just talking about Class D, RFI/EMI and cables, so why should your leg hurt?

Given your choice of antenna for speaker cables, you're wise to keep them short and away from the digital sources. B&O doesn't do a particularly great job of minimizing RFI/EMI, but your H2O likely makes up for that. Almost certainly your CDP and DAC are leaking RFI, so balanced ICs are wise in almost every system, particularly those with relatively long IC runs, like yours.

"Reactive" because you stated a high sensitivity to insulation on cabling.

I generally agree with everything you say, but don't find your system's sensitivity to cable insulation to be universal to Class D, that's all.

Dave

Dcstep, Unlike me ;D, my system is very very sensitive to everything..... especially criticism :D

My Scintillas have 40 feet of gossamer light naked ribbons. And they just do HF. The highs are audibly infinite. In conjunction with my H2O amps, twice improved, I have Henry Ho's Fire preamp too.

I like the NOS Audio Note DAC for it's purity. There is no filter software messing with it.

Tube changes, cable changes, speaker placement, are a devil's playground. I think I just lucked out.

i have auditioned two versions--the nuforce 9's and the raptors. both amps retail for about $5000. they remind me of a typical transistor amp. they are capable in the region below 200 hz and are deficient above 200 hz.

Well said Muralman1. Ultimately, the owner's satisfaction is most important and you've apparently acheived that.

Dave

This hobby is so subjective and system dependent that individual opinion, whether it be from a casual user or even professional reviewers, is almost useless. The handling of The Absolute Sound's reviews of the NuForce 9SE "Amplifier Of The Year", its inclusion in their class D shootout, and recently the 9SE v2, is a wonderful example of subjective audio opinion and editorial disagreement.

Compared to my linear solid state and tube amplifiers class D amplifiers have taken the most effort to integrate into my system to enjoy their full potential and an understandable reason for many of the negative experiences. I'm personally very skeptical of any reference of class D amplifiers sounding tube like. While there may be certain areas were the two may reach a similar timbre their general presentations are different. You like the sound of tubes, buy a tube amp.