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Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what?

I am certainly biased by my lifetime final amp being a Class D. But I know that after 30+ years of development, Class D seems to be on a high plain. I know there are now many, many companies focusing on Class D and, maybe, a good handful already as good as it gets. My Class D amp is as smooth and beautifully musical as a great tube amp and as punchy and detailed as a great SS amp. I am satisfied and done with my search. A class D amp has effectively taken me off the amp merry-go-round. It’s about time after 50 years. And, for me, this Class D is a milestone. Will all other classes of amps fade away?
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earlflynn
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I had two NAD Purfi units in my house and neither stayed long.
Ran hot, glitchy and hardware issues. Have a 3020 I use out by the pool and it is okay., cheap and if it gets left out overnight and gets rained on who cares?


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avanti1960
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Lets let the "measurements" guys buy them up.  
Good, occasionally brilliant, occasionally awful.  


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georgehifi
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Only two from Technics so far are in Class-D royalty.
They are the Technics SU-R1000 Integrated and the SE-R1 Power-Amp, both use the GaN technology, the SE-R1 uses it to the max, with a 1.5mhz switching speed, it’s yet to be proved/written if the SU-R1000 has gone the extra yards and used this 3 x higher switching speed.

Cheers George

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Class D amps can sound good, you just have to put a tube dac and tube preamp in front of them.
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