What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load

Hi Noble100,

I have looked at Merrill Veritas amps but am not quite ready to part with my CJ preamp🤔.

Thanks for listening,

Dsper

Hi atmasphere,

I have been thinking about what you wrote earlier in this thread:
"...all amplifiers regardless of technology have higher distortion into 2 ohms which is audible as increased brightness and harshness. You can see this in the specs (if 2 ohms distortion is even specified, but you can also see it in the 4 ohm spec as opposed to 8). Further complicating matters is the critical nature of the speaker cable, which must be kept very short and also must have a fairly heavy gauge. At that impedance its very easy for the cable to contribute to the overall source impedance seen by the loudspeaker!

In a nutshell, 2 ohm loudspeakers are impractical and the ability to drive a load like that is over-rated..."

So...a couple of layman's questions:

1. Does this mean that differences between interconnects would be more discernible in a system that did not need to handle a 2 ohm load or is it that one would simply hear a different version of "brightness and harshness" ion a less efficient system? Bear in mind that I have never critically listened to a high efficiency system and probably do not understand transparency in the same way that you might.

2. What is your opinion about ten or twelve gauge stranded copper wire as a speaker cable for Thiel CS5's? Is it even audible for ten foot run compared to fourteen or sixteen gauge?

Excuse me for hijacking my thread.

Thanks for listening,

Dsper

For a ten foot run I suspect that difference in gauge may well be audible with a low impedance load like that.
With respect to interconnects- hard to say. The differences I've heard in interconnects are unrelated to brightness caused by increased distortion in amplifiers.

If they are running a row of fets that will do the job.