I don't have any papers or math or theories to dazzle you with. But I do have a Rowland Capri preamp, 102 amplifier, and PC-1 power correction device and a pair of very high resolution conical horns. These horns only reproduce up to about 14 Khz and, being a 61 year old male, I can't hear anything higher than that. My equipment is deafeningly silent directly into the horn but when I go through my dbx Drive Rack, I hear a faint rushing sound. A recording engineer friend tells me that the dbx has a residual noise floor of -100 db. and that I need line level attenuators to eliminate the sound. I may acquire some of those eventually if the noise ever bothers me enough.
The message I get from this is that my ICEpower amp is silent and my noise is definitely emanating from elsewhere.
Maybe yours is too.
All of this anti-Class D hysteria is ridiculous. There may be poor implementations out there but I have owned Red Wine Audio and JRDG amplification devices for 4 years now interspersed with tube and class A amplifier insertions. My experiences have been uniformly positive and I am beginning to believe that those who decry the increasing presence of Class D have a flat-earth disorder, a profit motive or a faulty theory.
We have, like it or not, passed the point of no return with Class D. It is here to stay and the established modalities are the ones that should be questioning their future.
Napoleon isn't going to return, Mr. Chauvin.
The message I get from this is that my ICEpower amp is silent and my noise is definitely emanating from elsewhere.
Maybe yours is too.
All of this anti-Class D hysteria is ridiculous. There may be poor implementations out there but I have owned Red Wine Audio and JRDG amplification devices for 4 years now interspersed with tube and class A amplifier insertions. My experiences have been uniformly positive and I am beginning to believe that those who decry the increasing presence of Class D have a flat-earth disorder, a profit motive or a faulty theory.
We have, like it or not, passed the point of no return with Class D. It is here to stay and the established modalities are the ones that should be questioning their future.
Napoleon isn't going to return, Mr. Chauvin.

