Hey That's Not So Bad if It's Class D

audioman58:
"I also feel All solid state amps can be improved with a good Vacuum Tube preamp."

Hello audioman58,

     A few years ago, I would have completely agreed with your statement but I now know it should be modified from ’All’ to ’Most’ solid state amps can be improved with a good Vacuum Tube preamp.
     I too used a tube preamp (a VTL 2.5 with NOS Mullard tubes) with various good quality class AB ss amps (Adcom,  McCormack and Aragon) for many years to warm up the midrange and have a detailed but smooth treble.
     I’ve since discovered that ss preamps combined with ss amps can achieve the same results if they’re both of high quality.
Tim

Class D amps from major manufacturers have never sounded terrible. The way some talk, one would think class D had CB Radio sound quality and Class A was HD fm radio. Even 20 years ago class D could sound very good. The sound difference is not anything most people would notice in a “playing in a room background” situation. 

Nothing wrong with the sound of Class D amps. It's comments like, "They did not get me emotionally involved with the music." It's statements like that that will drive a amplifier manufacturer NUTS.

    
    I know my class D monoblocks provide significantly better sound quality in my system and room than any of the good quality, big, heavy,inefficient and hot running class AB amps I previously used.

     If you're not getting emotionally involved in the music played thru a good class D amp blame it on the music, not the amp.

Tim

noble100"I know my class D monoblocks provide significantly better sound quality in my system and room than any of the good quality, big, heavy,inefficient and hot running class AB amps I previously used."

Actually Class AB amplifiers designed for music Reproduction Systems are quite efficient although not nearly as much as Class D but they also avoid the distortion, artifacts, and noise inherently embedded in Class D products and components and if you're Class AB amplifiers ran hot then they were misadjusted as to bias or they were improperly designed or they had insufficient heatsinking.