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The Future of Audio Amplification

I have recently paired an Audio Research DS225 Class D amplifier with an Audio Research tube preamplifier (SP8 mkii). I cannot believe how wonderful and lifelike my music sounds. The DS225 replaced an Audio Research SD135 Class AB amplifier. Perhaps the SD135 is just not as good as some of the better quality amps that are out there, but it got me thinking that amazingly wonderful sonance can be achieved with a tubed pre and Class D amp. I have a hunch that as more people experience this combination, it will likely catch on and become the future path of many, if not most audiophile systems. It is interesting that Audio Research has been at the forefront of this development.
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georgehifi
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kosst_amojan"SMPS’s are notoriously hard on caps."
clearthink
Do you have any "credible proof" of that as you

Kosst is right. If you had to ask that, you’ve obviously had zero experience with smp’s and or with their caps.

http://www.ijmlc.org/papers/326-L40116.pdf


Cheers George
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uberwaltz
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Ah yes, the Rowland Daemon superintegrated.... Hope to have the opportunity of having one in my system some day and scribble about it... Meantime, for some info on Daemon, here is its page:

https://www.jeffrowlandgroup.com/daemon/

Saluti, G.

That beast looks like the stuff of class D wet dreams!
guidocorona
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Hello @uberwaltz, according to the verbal reports I have heard from earwitnesses at shows, Daemon sounds like those aforementioned dreams as well *Grins!*


G.


213runnin
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Sorry guido, I gave at the office.
guidocorona
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Thank you 213runnin for that delightful bit of purple prose. I should like to counter with my favorite -- if admittedly pessimistic -- quote from our own Rodman99999...

　

"Just don't fall into the category of those whose minds, like concrete, are thoroughly mixed, and permanently set"

RODMAN99999

　

Yet things might not be quite as bad as that... Get out of the house a bit, get some fresh air.... You might even discover that the Earth ain't flat.

　

Saluti, G.

　

　

　

　

　

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