Class D is just Dandy!

he can’t trust his own ears.

I do very much so Eric , maybe it’s you that needs an bi-aural Exostosis operation.

As I said before the only one of new breed of Class-D’s that I had any time for, was the latest BelCanto 600 monoblocks to which BC from what I understood by the presenter has done their own switching noise filtering, from what is standard from NCore.

But they had to be driving a benign 6ohm load, of a top line Raven tweeter’ed two way bookshelf, to get me to like them, on the other speakers they too didn’t sound very good.

Cheers George

Jtsnead,
I have been following the evolution of the Nord since the inception of them,Rollable op amps,very cool.Colin North has quite a following on audio shark forum.

The Bhk preamp looks like a good fit for me and there is several used up for sale.Thanks for the info.


Madavid,

You may want to try a warmer sounding solid state or tube preamp with your d-Sonics.
Let us know the details of your current system and what kind of musical presentation or flavor that you are looking for.

Kenny.

George,

Were can a mate get a bi-aural Exostosis operation?
Can it be accomplished in the states or would I have to go down under.

Kenny.

I have three Crown ITech 5000HD stereo amps (6 x 1250 watts) with incorporated active dsp crossover controlling 2 JBL M2 Master Reference Monitors and a JBL Sub18 (2500 watts bridged amp).  These are called class I by Crown and are a variation of class D.  Dynamic range, transient response, and headroom, are well beyond the traditional average "audiophile" system.  These characteristics are, in fact, staggering when compared to my conventional Classe/B&W 801N system.  No doubt, this is due in part to the extreme high wattage and active crossover of the  Crown amplifiers, something not easily obtained with conventional amps.  I don't sense any particular harshness with the Crowns, and, in fact, the system sounds pretty sweet, but I do constantly wonder if upper frequency refinement would improve if the Crowns were other than class I.   The totally outrageous slam and bass response of the JBL/Crown system, however, is quite fun.

Lots of great info and feedback on the "big boys" in class D (B&O, Hypex, Pascal).

I've been using the NuPrime IDA-16, which uses proprietary modules and I'm really liking what I'm hearing. So much so that I'm pretty sure it's staying (45 day trial period). 

Anyway, anybody else using class-D amps from manufactures "rolling" their own modules?

Cheers,

Scott