Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other???


I’m looking for a new amp & want Class D.

I’ve seen various brands mentioned, such as PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrel to name a few, but I’ve not heard any of them.

Which company is producing the best sounding Class D?
Which models should I be looking to demo?


Thanks



singintheblues
You just don’t want people to like Class D.
Really!!!!
I’m pushing Class-D with this newer technology, because the old technology that’s basically been the same since it started (save for some input detours) is flawed. Reason why all detractors ALWAYS find the mid/highs are not right.

You are the one every time I bring it up that is putting **** on this new GaN technology, possibly maybe hoping it won’t advance every time I’ve talked about it, what is it, do you have monitory interest in present day Class-D, because you sure do push the old, never the new.
I want it to advance so the mids and highs get the same respect the bass has, then I’ll get 2 pairs to take the place of my inefficient boat anchors.

We now have GaN users Merrill, Technics and  AGD Production.
And as GaN in an email said
" We are unable to reveal due to the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with our customers.
But I can assure you that there are several customers globally, developing with eGaN FETs for Audio applications, primarily due to the benefits it offers."

https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/agd-production-vivace-gantube-monoblock-ampli...

Cheers George

This guy knew what was coming a couple of years ago, even though not one amp was yet built using EPC's GaN technology.

 https://audiophilereview.com/cd-dac-digital/why-well-soon-be-living-in-a-class-d-world.html

Cheers George
The class D AGD Vivace Monoblock amps are a steal at $15k USD per set. I have heard they are the real deal in rendering an authentic 3D soundstage of the correct timbre pace and dynamics.
they are the real deal in rendering an authentic 3D soundstage of the correct timbre pace and dynamics.

I believe it, it has the GaN technology.
Probably could have been below $10k if he didn’t use that marketing "tube thing", may have been even better sounding without tube pins in the signal path. Bet there’s a cheaper MkII without the tube thing soon.

Even he said
"Company founder Alberto Guerra admitted that he did it largely for the sake of visual aesthetics. “Otherwise a class-D amp just looks like a box,” he said. The amp uses gallium nitride MOSFET output transistors, which Guerra says switch faster and allow the amp to have a noise floor in the -120 to -130dB range. Power is rated at 200W into 4 ohms."
Here's another press release, this time from Murata Manufacturing Co's (subsidiaries P-Semi) Murata is one of the larger semiconductor manufactures and suppliers.

https://www.psemi.com/newsroom/press-releases/545048-peregrine-s-new-fet-driver-brings-industry-s-fa...

Cheers George