The best reason to buy is that the good ones sound great even with harder to drive speaker loads due to lots of power and current delivery possible out of a smaller package due to efficiency.
Class D Technology
So I get the obvious strengths of Class D. Efficiency, power output & running cool which allows for small form factors. I also understand the weaknesses somewhat. 1. Non-linear & lots of distortion that needs to be cleaned up with an output filter.
So my question is, if it weren't for efficiency & power, would there be any reason to own a Class D amp? Do they beat Class A in any other categories that count for sound quality?
So my question is, if it weren't for efficiency & power, would there be any reason to own a Class D amp? Do they beat Class A in any other categories that count for sound quality?
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One of our audiogon friends uses class D amp (H20) with Apogee Scintilla in 1 ohm mode with great results.Then I feel sorry for this person as he has never heard his Scintilla’s at their best. It may work, but at their best?? FAR FROM IT! As they are a great speaker and should be driven with the right amp and Class-D is definitely, absolutely, not one of them, not yet anyway, give it some time and in the future it will be. Cheers George |
randy-11You are correct Randy, really good for bass Technics have lead the way and developed a very expensive one http://www.technics.com/us/products/r1/se-r1.html with double the switching frequency as it is today @ 1.5mhz. This is a step in the right direction, but it really needs to get to around 5mhz before the right effective filtering can be done, and then able to get rid of todays Achilles heel that Class-D has. So just go the cheaper not so glitzy ClassD’s if you want to dabble in it, or even do your own clone if you or a friend are able, and purchase the Icepower/Hypex?etc modules and the power supply modules they sell. They are very much a pluggable build to do, hardly maybe no soldering to do. Cheers George |
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