Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other???

So George, I guess we can all consider you in the Class D camp?

One day maybe, when the price (not looks) of the performance of the SE-R1 comes down to the the price or lower of the SU-G30.

GaN technology seems to be lit, just needs more semi conductor manufactures like Motorola, AD, Texas, ect ect. to purchase patent rights to make them from EPC (GaN)
That’s how they (Lidow and co.) did it when they sold the rights to the power mosfet all those years ago, and if you remember the same scenario is going on here. Initial price of amps using them were very high then they crashed because so many manufacturers bought the rights to make them.

BTW looking at the heatsinks in the SU-G30 above, that section is the GaN amp, it may have higher than todays 600khz switching because it’s using these heatsinks, as EPC said to me if left at 600khz there is no need for any heat sinking on any of the GaN boards, so it maybe higher. Could be a great sounding little amp, I can think maybe Quad ESL57’s would be nice as they can’t take to much wattage, or any > 90db speakers

Cheers George

I’ll consider your response promising. Maybe it’s time for a group hug with Eric?

Maybe it’s time for a group hug with Eric?

Too busy listening to my marvelous Class D amps to bother with other humans.

I’ll consider your response promising.

Like I said before, when this GaN technology becomes more affordable, and looking that this latest stuff coming out it’s not too far off.
Those that were negative towards all the pro’s it had to offer from owners of the current hamstrung Class-D’s, those owners will be the first ones sell their older technology ones to purchase the newer GaN Class-D’s.
As they will not want to be stuck with them, as they’ll be unsellable for a reasonable price.
It could be compared to when silicon transistor amps came out, the older germanium transistor amps couldn’t even be given away.

Cheers George