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The Truth about Modern Class D

All my amps right now are Class D. ICEpower in the living room, and NAD D 3020 in the bedroom.

I’ve had several audiophiles come to my home and not one has ever said "Oh, that sounds like Class D."

Having said this, if I could afford them AND had the room, I’d be tempted to switch for a pair of Ayre monoblocks or Conrad Johnson Premiere 12s and very little else.

I’m not religious about Class D. They sound great for me, low power, easy to hide, but if a lot of cash and the need to upgrade ever hits me, I could be persuaded.

The point: Good modern Class D amps just sound like really good amplifiers, with the usual speaker/source matching issues.

You don’t have to go that route, but it’s time we shrugged off the myths and descriptions of Class D that come right out of the 1980’s.
erik_squires
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celander
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Sorry for the duplicative (and now-deleted) posts. System error with the site and not the user. 😬😬

My previous post is made against a backdrop of using a Spectron class D amp to drive Dunkavy SC-IVa’s. So I readily accept using a single-run of IC’s from the preamp to the class D amp.
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I never receive notifications about new posts. I recently noticed the autocorrect features of the forum posts no longer work. And the search engine functions of the forum are now disabled (zero hits as search results). 
ebm
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It WILL NEVER be as good as tubes,class a or good a/b NEVER!!!
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