Class-D Audio USA have just released their new GaN amp at the CES


Class-D Audio USA have finally shown their GaN based Class-D at the CES, anyone see/hear it?
It should be well priced.
Wonder if they went the extra yards/cost for the higher 1.5mhz switching frequency, like the mighty Technics SE-R1.

On Jan 23, 2020 at 6:14 PM, Sales <sales@classdaudio.com> wrote:
Hi George,
Yes, our new GaN amp was just at the CES show a few weeks ago, and was a big success. If you email me tomorrow and remind me, I can provide more information... I’ll try to remember to email when I get to work, but sometimes I get pulled many directions when I get there.
Tom

https://www.classdaudio.com/
CES report on GaN  https://dgit.com/daily/ces-2020-shows-our-silicon-future-is-becoming-gan-and-more/
https://epc-co.com/epc/Applications/ClassDAudio.aspx

Cheers George
128x128georgehifi
My uncle is a Audiophile as well as myself and designs in pro audio, class D has made its mark the Gan circuits can be good but 
the design circuit also has to be created and voiced also properly around it.
it will progress over time ,but still in its early stages .in many cases the good old Vacuum tube which was called obsolete back in the 80s still in many areas still is the standard for realism and naturalness.being part of the audio circuit in a Power amp, preamp, or in digital there is a magic hard to ignore.
Never trusted Class D since Bob Carver's original brute circa 1980. So now Carver is doing tubes and Class D is high fashion. Stand long enough in the same place . . .
@hickamore....*L* Yup, and the landscape changes beneath your feet.

I'm a SS person myself, but having grown up with tubes and lived through the  transistor>chip>integrated circuit>MB 'eras', the 'new' is all I've known....*G*

I can appreciate the 'romance of tubes', and their 'sound'.  But 'smaller/faster/lighter' and eventually 'better' is the march we live with.

Of course, the 'better' issue is one that's still up to one to define and decide for one's self.  And I'm good with that...*S*

"I've been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
a Communist, 'cuz I'm left handed.

But that's the hand to use!
Well, never mind." - A Simple Desultory Philippic - Paul Simon.

Right handed myself...not that it's right, nor wrong....it just Is. ;)

Have a good weekend, however handed...;)
J

Have Technical specifications for the new Class-D GaN amp been posted somewhere?


Regards, Guido

 

Have Technical specifications for the new Class-D GaN amp been posted somewhere?
Nothing yet, just this preliminary brochure has been done that he sent me last night. He (Tom) should/will be watching this thread if you have any questions, as I gave him a link to it.

Here is a link to the brochure... http://premium-audio.com/brochure/premiumbrochure.pdf
Please keep in mind, this is the prototype. The final version has super nice gold RCA’s and nicer XLR’s.
Let anyone know, if they have questions, they can contact me at sales@premium-audio.com of through the website at www.premium-audio.com and www.premiumaudioproducts.com
I’m working 7 days and nights a week now trying to get things finished... lots in the works. I will try to answer emails as soon as I can.
Cheers George