Class D


Been thinking of trying a D amp to reduce clutter. Most that I see are not rated at 2 ohms.  My PSB Stratus gold's will drop to 3 ohms or lower at some frequencies. So my question is will these types of amps handle this impedance ?
Thanks in advance. Chris
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You you don’t even understand what you asked, they utilized one graph instead of two just to confuse the likes of you
Well put djones51

The time coherence is w.r.t. blending drivers at the cross-over point, not across the whole output. If you ever looked at electrical phase versus acoustic phase you would see that what you describe is a rarity in speakers if at all. One simply needs to look at the impulse functions for that. However at the crossover point it is important so you don’t have peaks and valleys in the response. Turns out our ears/brain have never been shown to be that sensitive to phase, not surprising when you look at the physical structure, but I digress.

It does appears that the phase shifts almost 70 degrees, but if you understand LC filters and output impedance, you would know this would not be possible as the L would make for a very high impedance, the C a low impedance and you would get a much faster drop in the response curve. To be honest, it is not completely clear whether they are looking at the phase of the output impedance or what. I know when you look at an amp that includes a "special" 1200AS you see a pretty clean square wave at 10KHz which would be impossible if the phase response was that variable over those frequencies.


https://www.stereophile.com/content/ps-audio-stellar-m1200-monoblock-power-amplifier-measurements

and the BelCanto which I think has an older 1000AS, has a very good 1KHz square wave indicative of little phase-shift from 1Khz to 10-20KHz.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/bel-canto-ref1000m-monoblock-power-amplifier-measurements


The 700AS has about 25 degrees at 20Khz, half that at 10KHz, so at cross-over frequencies fairly minimal. Just remember that people put super tweeters on top of their speakers and don’t align them to fractions of a mm .. but I digress.


https://icepower.dk/support/#download-expand

I should point out that any amplifier designer who knows his stuff of which you know who is not, could create an analog filter on the input that creates an inverse phase-function to compensate for the amplifier phase shift. This is essentially what Technics does with their GaN amps, but they do it in the digital domain.

queue deflections and insults ....
The ICE 200AS2 has this same graph which shows a phase shift of almost 90° . I've never seen these types of plots presented this way and they don't do it for all their models.
https://icepower.dk/products/amplifier-power-modules/as-series/
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