Looks intriguing but not much out there on it yet so wondering if anyone here has had a chance to hear it or, even better, had a chance to compare it to other amps. Thinking of taking a flier on this amp given the tech and price, but we all know implementation is everything so looking for some real-world impressions before ponying up any dough. Also, please let’s not make this yet another measurement debate — I’m purely interested in sonic impressions here so take your measurement comments elsewhere. Thanks.
Let me know when someone actually buys one and listens to it and can share their findings.
I am tempted for that price but can’t justify another amp quite yet. The longer one waits, the better off one usually is in regards to the product/technology options at their disposal to buy. In other words, new innovations of value to many and not just a select few with unlimited funds only get better and cheaper over time.
doogiehowser"Let attitude more reading would be your friend considering the ASR link had listening impressions" I also struggle and wrestle with the English language because I am not a native speaker so I am not criticizing you're comment but it is not clear I believe as it is written so you may want to rephrase, reword, or reconstruct you're sentence for clarity and comprehension. Also you may want to know because you are new here that ASR is widely disregarded here because although they claim to be about "science" it is obvious from even a casual review of they're work that they are very unscientific and make unsupported claims you will see many references to this on Audiogon you need to find better sources and a word of advice don't let the word "science" make you think it is "true."
I think it’s on track to get some info on sound from anyone here. The more exposure the better. If you search you will see I started a thread on this USA made amp quite a while back as Class-D Audio USA was developing it. Cheers George
I understand it fine thanks, which is precisely why I didn’t want this to devolve into yet another endless argument about how good or bad this or that measurement is and how important measurements are or aren’t (aka hoopla) rather how the thing actually sounds. Capiche?
I said this upfront to avoid the measurement hoopla.
Only hoopla to those that don’t understand it, and it so new that’s all there’ll be for a while till some one purchases it, for the minuscule price it is, and that will come from keeping this thread active hopefully.
I’m purely interested in sonic impressions here so take your measurement comments elsewhere.
I said this upfront to avoid the measurement hoopla. If all you’ve got is measurements and haven’t heard the amp your comments are useless in the context of this thread. Moving on...
Compare it to other Class-D that are low priced. For $699 don’t think you’ll find anything better perhaps, and USA made, sold and serviced, doesn’t seem to be a China, Asia, or Euro connection at all.
If should be obvious that GaN does not guarantee better performance.
No, but if the GaN semiconductors have been implemented right, it is the one to use today And with this Class D Audio USA made one, it could be just a ready made board from GaN to use, in whatever case one see fit, like a $20k one could be using the same board. As Class D Audio did use Ice Power & Hypex boards for some of their kits in the past.
Practically on many cases it does but performance alone may not equal good sound. Good sound is a subjective not necessarily an objective determination.
300w 4ohm GaN Technology for $699!!! gotta be bargain if it sounds as good or better than Purifi or Hypex NC500. What I like is that it’s that it’s 100kohm input impedance, rather than stupid low 20kohm like most Class-D’s. Which means it can be driven direct from even tube source or tube pre or passive preamps easily.
Why don’t you just buy one?.....you have 15 days to return it, if not happy. Since it is so light, the shipping would be not much for both ways. You can be the one to let everyone know how it sounds versus more expensive amps (assuming you have a more expensive reference). If you don’t buy today the price is going up $50. If you cannot play it all the time then put some power resistors on it and run it 24/7......burn in can sometimes be very little or a great deal. One of the mini reviews on the Premium Audio site claims it got noticeably better with time.
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