High end Class D amps?

@mrdecibel What a class D amp potentially brings to the table is the ability to be neutral in a way that most solid state amps of traditional design cannot: they can be designed to lack brightness and harshness. For this reason alone they can work quite well on horns.


We are still in a period of the Wild West; there are a lot of different approaches to class D implementation and they sound different, so you have to be patient.

OK, so in the world of Purifi, alongside Apollon (Austria)
https://www.apollonaudio.com/

or March (Australia)
https://www.marchaudio.net.au/

or Nord (G.B.)
https://www.nordacoustics.co.uk/

you're also got ATM Audio (Spain)
https://atm-audio.com/

Audiophonics (France)
https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/

Rouge (Italy)
https://en.rougeaudiodesign.com/

and Vera (Norway)
https://www.vera-audio.com/

among others.

In the US you've got VTV, so beloved of a certain member of Audiogon
https://vtvamplifier.com/

and at a very different price point LKV
https://sites.google.com/view/lkvresearch/home

A lot of these produces share the same or similar input buffers and power supplies, as well as the Purifi module, though it isn't always clear on the websites exactly what goes into each unit.  Some differences are attributable to the quality and cleanness of the construction, some (perhaps) to design, unique components, and topology.

GaN is already here with Orchard, AGD and others, while the much-delayed and much-anticipated LSA Voyager is reportedly coming soon (perhaps).

GaN is already here with Orchard, AGD and others, while the much-delayed and much-anticipated LSA Voyager is reportedly coming soon (perhaps).

And mid Feb so they say, the integrated with everything, the SU-R1000 from Technics promises to be the pinnacle of affordable Class-D design using GaN technology, and "hopefully using the same as their flagship SE-R1 1.5mHz switching speed" which should take it to where Class-D promises to be, but hasn’t as yet..
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/technics-su-r1000-a-new-class-d-gan-technology-integrated

Cheers George

Atmosphere, you are bulls eye, on the money. Thank you for your contributions here! 

I can just imagine people trying to figure out your comment,What a class D amp potentially brings to the table is the ability to be neutral in a way that most solid state amps of traditional design cannot: they can be designed to lack brightness and harshness." Absolutely! I have used the amp on review on the hybrid PAP Treo15 Horn 1 and it is gloriously precisely as you describe. 

Our skeptics will doubt it. Their loss. 
 

NAD uses Purifi in the M33 and the C298. ATM also  uses the purifi in a couple of builds.