jimman2
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| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @speeddeacon 'While I hope that the cheaper amps will not outperform or even remotely equal the sonics of their more expensive brethren...' I don't understand why you would say that and you better get to much better than 80% if you are going to s... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I think the 'perfect' amp should 'sound' like an exact performance of what is being amplified with zero distortion. Class D is getting there. How far has class A really evolved over the past 20 years? A lot of people posting here claim their 20... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Mitch - I did read your previous post and my last post isn't intended for you at all as you did in fact mention some Class D amps that you listened to and compared (you are one of the very few to mention names and a comparison). I respect that yo... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Good thread but people keep bashing Class D with generalities. I haven't read a D-basher here yet that mentions which high end Class D amps they've listened to that pale in comparison to their Class A or A/B amps. For instance - Neal, I'd be inte... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings blackflyI did read your post before responding. You said Class D "has a longs ways to go..." (without mentioning any Class D amps that you have listened to). I gave my opinion that it doesn't have a long way to go and in previous posts compared ... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @blackfly Class D amps have come a long long way since their inception when they were used solely as sub amps. I'll argue that they don't have a long way to go as many of us in this thread feel they are equal if not superior to the Class A and A/... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @bcgator I think we in the lunatic minority are much more prevalent in this thread than has been in the past. Rowland, Cary, ATI to name just a few high end companies seem to be developing (at least some) of their amps using D Class modules. The... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @grannyring The amp you are referring to has digital input but Class D is not 'digital'. I didn't read too much about the company but I assume that means that the amp has a DAC. At some point before your speakers there has to be a conversion to a... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @mitch2 I meant the more recent incarnations of Class D - in my post I mentioned that I think they have come a long ways in past few years, especially with the NAD I am now using. On another subject I was recently reading an article about Bob Car... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @uberwaltzI can't keep Pink Floyd records in stock, especially DSOTM - in nice condition they generally fetch between $30 and $75. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings OK a quite a few of us here think that Class D may have already surpassed Class A/B in at least a few instances. It seems that the people critical of Class D amps haven't given them a fair shake/listen (and people please stop referring to them as... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I couldn't get rid of my Emotiva preamp fast enough - made my ears almost bleed. I would listen to a $200 1970s Technics receiver before I would own Emotiva separates. You've made a good point. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I'd like to mention too that I use Class D amplification in my vehicle system (Alpine) and the sound is far superior to that of the McIntosh amplifier I used about ten years ago. I use it with an Alpine sound processor, 2 pairs of component speak... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings dave b - I noticed that Bluesound is a sister company of NAD. I put the Auralic Vega in my system with the NAD M22 yesterday- the sound I'm hearing is quite alarming (in a good way). The Auralic needs another 80 hours of break in to boot. Quiet... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I didn't see any mention of the relatively new NAD M22 amp (using a variation Hypex NC400 NCore modules). It's had some favorable reviews even compared to amps costing 3x as much. Any experience here? I had a Bel Canto EVO up til about 5 years ... |