Is D for Dry? Class D...

...well, D is trying to storm the Citadel of Sound again.....

...and have grown more equipped to do so.

Only time and timbre to tell the tale...as it always has been. *G*

+1 dorkwad
I had the V2 SE's, but the 2 Ohm Thiel speakers they powered needed still more juice. Recently changed to a VTV Pascal L-Pro2S amp. Now more controlled and a feeling of effortlessness, more detail as well, but not quite the same warmth as the NuForce. Still a long way from "dry and lifeless" though.

I recently auditioned a 100wpc Rotel integrated amp, with a Rotel CD player, with some $10,000 speakers that are a much newer version, but one model down from my own.  By its size, the amp must have been a Class D.  It also sounded very electronic, very much like my Crown IC 150, as far as I can remember back that far.  If this represents Class D sound, I would not be a customer for it.  Even the sales person finally admitted that it was not really expected to be used for long term listening.  Is Rotel actually Class D now? 

It's ridiculous to lump class D amps together as having a particular sound. It's just as nuts as lumping together all class A/B amps, or tube amps together. The variety of amplification outcomes in each type of amp is so varied that I challenge anyone to be able to reliably say which type is playing in a blind test. There are dry-sounding tube amps, wet sounding class D, neutral sounding variants in each class. This is a tired subject, which doesn't merit further examination. I would rather be listening to my music....and I don't care which amp is hooked up...

Damn,  i hope jeff roland dont read that