Oh how I wish Class D amps ...

"... they don't hold a candle to the clarity my ICE amps have. "

I am sure you are absolutely correct. No one in his right mind would challange your assessment of your own amplifiers.

Athmasphere was just helping me understand why the best tube amps have near zero distortions level. The same philosophy (approach), he described is that of many other companies. I mentioned Spectron statement that based on PUBLISHED measurments distortions are...distortion are...distortions and bad for you...even pleasant for ears as even-order harmonics or ear-piercing odd-order ones.

It has nothing to do with fantastic qulaity of yours and everybody else amplifiers. Somebody mentioned above that sound quality is a function of many parameters and distortions (type and amount) is only one of them. Nothing more.

Peace.

Dob, interesting. I thought Atmasphere was suggesting that balanced amps have near zero distortion levels.

"I thought Atmasphere was suggesting that balanced amps have near zero distortion levels. "

yes, but in comparison to the same amplifier configured in the single ended mode...

Also Atmasphere, in other posts, postulated that good sounding amplifier should have no or minimum of odd order harmonics as compared that to the even order ones in the same amplifier, of course.

I am way over my head here with the techincal issues but I have owned Sonic Fronteirs Power 3 amps with KT88s for years before I switched to Spectron monoblocks. I due love the midrange of the KT88s but I feel the transparency is better in the Spectron class D. The amps both have different sounds and I would never confuse one for the other. There is a certain sparkle with tubes which I feel like I miss with my old tube amps.

People please stop using the phrase digital amplifier. There is NOTHING digital about class D.