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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.

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With the right tools and parts why would Class D be any harder to fix than any other amplifier. It is rare for the amplifiers to fail. It is more likely the power supply fails.

@donavabdear do you have a room response comparison for your two systems?  I would not be surprised if the difference is more frequency response than anything.

Also I have what should be a very good headphone setup, Focal Stellia and a Naim amp designed for headphones. the headphones and amp were about $8k 

The headphones sound ok they have never really thrilled me. I thought having expensive headphones and a dedicated class A amp would change my life. It's good but nope.

OP,

I also have a good headphone system. While I occasionally use my Focal Utopias, which sound amazing, I normally use my Sennheiser HD800’s. My system is amazing and incredibly musical and natural… the amp is a Woo 300B (my systems under my ID). It is so good it caused me to completely redo my main system with all tubed components.