Again the topic of weight of amps

geoffkait,

Active resistance, to Dopey Donny the Orange Racist Baby. Woops, there goes my restraint.

Are you out of mind?

Perhaps....
@noble100 

"There’s been very good class D amps on the market for at least the last 5 years, maybe longer...."

I owned NC1200 amplifiers and while they sounded ok, I also owned three sets of conventional Class A or AB amplifiers at the time that I liked better.  A couple of reviewers have mentioned traits that I heard with those Class D amplifiers (i.e., read the Mono & Stereo review of the Kalugas) and I ultimately couldn't live with them.  The bass sounded good at first but it was unnaturally over-damped and not what I hear from live music.  The bass from my Class A Claytons sound way better to me and even better defined without the truncated over-damping.  I will only speak to the Class D amplifiers I have owned but they are among the amps you listed as "very good."

Back to transformers, I am currently having some amps built and they will have large Plitron low noise toroids.  From what I hear, Plitron has the noise issue mostly worked out on their low-noise version transformers.  The amplifier designer also uses heavy metal plates and damped stand-offs to mount the transformers so...fingers crossed.  My Claytons have two large toroids in each monoblock and they are pretty quiet so I guess I am lucky.

Since he likes nicknames so much Tim, turnabout is fair play ;-) .

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