Who tried Class D only to return to S/S or Tube



And what were the reason you did a backflip back to S/S or tube.
As there are a few pro Class D threads being hammered at the moment, I thought I'd put this up, to get some perspective.

Cheers George
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As I understand it, Anthem gear, is class-D. Certainly not like Pass Labs or Conrad Johnson, but bad on the other hand. Happy Listening!
There is only about 1% of 500kHz switching noise on the speaker cable, and that is absolutely irrelevant. Placing an ear next to tweeter proves only that people cannot hear 500kHz (almost complete silence). Modulating 500kHz by the tweeter would require its membrane to move at this frequency - not possible. There is no sizzle of any kind in my class D amp. If anything, class D amps are reviewed as "dark sounding". Yes, higher bandwidth would be always nice, but 65kHz -3dB sounds fine to me (some class D amps go twice higher).
I have Dynaudio 1.3mkii monitors I've used with my main arc sp16 tube preamp and BelCanto ref1000m amps and also with Newer Bel Canto c5i integrated.     

With the arc/bc combo the Dynaudios have a bit of bite in the top end and excellent Dynamics at modest to higher volumes.  This is in a smaller 12x12 room.  

At comparable volume with c5i in second system in large family room kitchen area  the Dynaudios are smooth as silk.  


Mitch2, 
The Mono and Stereo reviewer described the Mola Mola amplifier nearly exactly as how they sound to me, I feel he nailed their sonic character. Horses for courses. 
Charles,