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Class D for a Tube Lover

First, I'm sure this has been asked many times but searching the subject wasn't too helpful to me.

So apologies in advance.

I enjoy tubed electronics and class A amps, which tend to be a bit warm.  My current Cary 805s warm my small (12x16) music room even in the cool/cold of winter.  I've got other amps that don't produce much heat, but am looking for something that produces no heat.  Living in a home with no central AC the room gets uncomfortably hot during the summer months.

So...I'd like to try some Class D amps.  Stereo or mono is just fine.  And my speakers aren't difficult to drive so I don't need a thousand watts.  But if that thousand watt amp sounds great, I'm not adverse to that, either.

I'd like to keep the price under 2k used.  

Please help.

Thanks.


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audioman58
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$2k is not much , Underwood wally has still Wired4 sound integrated amps  for around $1500 that originally were  $2500 and pretty respectable forthe money . Class D I have seen at $30 K 
like Merrill audio  waay over priced !class D should be fair priced gan transistors are great new technology buy they are not That expensive.the markup is in their engineering . I am very happy with the Coda CSIB integrated vs any class D, or other class amplifiers.
fleschler
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Here's a review link to the AGD Audion top amp and pre-amp.  https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/agd-productions-gran-vivace-andante/
I'd like to hear them.   My best friend uses a Channel Islands Class D amp (what he could afford) mated to an EAR 324 tube pre-amp.   He is also a part time remastering engineer (worked with Kevin Gray for years) and finds the amp to be quite satisfying.  
rh67
307 posts
 
I have the AGD Audion, incredible amps!
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audiodwebe OP
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The Audions look very futuristic to me, like they somehow made improvements to tubes electronics.  

I hope lots of people buy them, tire of them, and sell them at discounted prices until bottom dwellers like me can afford them.

I'd like to hear them at some point.


rh67
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The Audions are the first and only class D amps that for ME i can honestly say that class D is in the big boy class of amps.

I took the 15 day in home trial and they are staying. After being on the class D merry go round for over a decade and wasting time and money the Audions have checked all of the boxes of what a great amp should sound like.
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