Class D is just Dandy!
erik_squires
That has been my experience as well... The "Class D Audio" SDS-470C is... very, very close to the Parasound Halo amps. The area in which the Halo amps might be a wee bit better (maybe) is in the clarity, and crispness of the bass (maybe). |
A well designed Class D amp will bring you in and draw you closer to your music. You also will hear deeper into your music and the details you never knew existed before suddenly appear as if previously you've been listening in a fog bank. My analogy/ the difference would be like looking through a dirty pane of glass as opposed to a sparkling clean one. I own two Class D amps and love them! |
phd Odd the opposite of what was heard from the $50K Mark Levinson No.53 Class-D monoblocks Stereophile's Michael Fremer listens to the ML No 53’s. "Through the No.53s Cassidy’s voice was pinpoint sharp but the reverb, instead of being airy and ethereal, sounded like a hard haze that obscured detail at low levels and became fatiguing at higher ones. As seems to be the case with switching amps, no matter how carefully designed, the higher in frequency the music goes, the more problems there are. That also holds true the more you turn up the volume. Generally speaking, the louder I played the No.53s, the more pronounced the haze. The more high-frequency content in the music—women’s voices, cymbals, reverberant backdrops—the more the haze intruded on and obscured the images, forcing me to turn down the volume." Cheers George |
Georgehifi, price don't always dictate performance and you sir do not have my speakers. Mark Levinson builds conventional amps very well but maybe he should leave the design of Class D amps to manufacturers that have had a good track record of building excellent sounding Class D amps. Class D does require experimentation, careful matching with the right speakers, interconnects, power cords and preamps to get the most out of them. |
