I'm blown away by the Sonic Impact tripath amp.

You are hearing a properly designed PWM amp. Nothing more nothing less. I know because I own one (PWM amp, different brand) for two months now. As you move up on the ladder (I am referring to the Rowlands, ICE H2O, ARC, Channel Island, Hypex UcD, Bel Canto, eAR, Carver,etc. except Panasonic or JVC, etc. which IMO sound nasty), the sonic performance will overwhelmingly surprise you. I do not know why, but my PWM amp gets better as I logged more time to it.

The "wave" reached the shore. But more are coming!

Congratulations!

Amandarae...An audiophile upgrade of the very respectable CarverPro ZR amps will hit the street in a few months.

A prelude to the "Big Kahuna"!!!

As I said, they already landed. I am a "convert" and I am not ashamed of it at all. Been to big full blown Class A SS, tubes, SET's, and now PWM. The journey is great, if you find a pot of gold in the end.

Thanks for the tip! Made me re-structure/re-consider my audio budget for the year.

regards

Amandarae,

I have audtioned several of the above mentioned audiophool units; battery juice is something Entirely different, trust me. The First Watt is the most important, and when this thing is harnessed to compatible, read: >95db speaks, it gets pretty special. And Very, very different. Then you add battery powered, non-OS DAC, and different still. Your equation of Mo Money = Mo Betta is wrong here.

Dmason,

I am surprised! You are just speculating I suppose. All I am trying to say is that power supply , as all other amps, is the most important thing. As you audition the amps I mentioned, the more refined and sophisticated the power supply design is. I have an MLTL (95dB) Fostex based speaker. I have a concrete idea what it sounds in my system. I also have a 300B (8 watts) amp,where I can relate the synergy of both.

As to the first Watt, I agree. But what makes this first Watt? Current multiplied by the impedance squared. The current comes from the power supply, always. From my reading, PWM module is a valve that decreases or increases the modulation of the current pulse in a particular time domain. It does not amplify any signal.

Auditioning the amps will give you a glimpse of what you should be expecting as you plan to incorporate it to your system. It does not give you the entire picture at all. Until you own it, work on the balance, and have it for some time, then you can only be sure if the amp is right for you.

As to Mo Money = Mo Betta, I do not know about that. Only fools will say such a thing in a public forum since you are only asking for trouble. Forgive me, but I read and re-read my previous post. Nowhere did I made such an outrageous claim nor such "equation" as you put it.