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

I don't know what they were driving the Muraudio with at CAF (last Nov.) but the sound was barely tolerable.  First of all, overly loud for the small hotel room; second on the jazz trumpet piece, the higher notes on the trumpet just seared my ears.  Had to leave, fast.  It was even unpleasant out in the hallway.

twoleftears

Apparently they were driven by Triangle Art class A monos. I'm getting the sense that the harshness we both heard was mostly endemic to the speakers themselves. Now that you said that, I would really like to hear the Merrill amps with a more neutral speaker.

Tweak 1: That has been exactly my experience too now with three months into enjoying the PS Audio Gain Cell DAC preamp/M700 monoblocks combo, in my case driving/feeding Thiel CS2.4s and two SVS SB2000 subs.

@toetapaudio:

I had a client replace his $18000 Mola Mola Kaluga amps with one of my $999 Icepower 1200AS based amps. And he now has better sound. He liked them so much he bought 4 in total. So at 18x the price, and worse sound, I wouldn't consider them a bargain. 

    When he came into the store and out of the cold, did he take off his earmuffs?

Tim