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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?
mglik
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georgehifi
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your posts are quite comical and i detect the lack of knowledge. Once again you know zero of what you say.
Everything has been proved, it is you that is the unknowledgeable one with no idea, and no will to learn, and with a fixation with what the AGD amp is cable doing and not doing.


And please no more paste and copy or boring links.
Only because you know nothing of EPDR speaker loading, and are not even willing to try to understand what it is🤦‍♂️, I’ve tried, but you have https://ibb.co/6yVxb0Q 😉

I come on here to provide to others my experience.
But which tell them false stories of what the AGD is capable of doing into low EPDR bass loads of around 1 to 1.5ohms. That is why I post measurement proof to correct your falsehoods.
devilboy
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Every class of amplification and every amplifier itself, has advantages and disadvantages. Class A, AB, D, tube amps, single ended triode, etc. There are things that my current class D amplifier excels in that my previous First Watt F7, Almarro a318b, E.A.R. 890 and others did not and vice versa.

In the end, amplifiers are like women:
Which one do you want to live with on a day-to-day basis without annoying you to the point where you have to move on to something else?
Which one has so many positives that you are willing to put up with the negatives?

It’s the same thing.
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earlflynn
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Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what?
 Skynet will take over and we will all be servants to the robot kingdom. Forced to listen to Industrial Tranzsedentic Music for the rest of our existence.

John Conner let us all down.

Happy Independence Day.

like what you like who cares what others think. 
mglik OP
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@earlflynn 
My current Class D amp is the AGD Audion.
There are about a half dozen+ Forum members all saying the same thing… they are uniquely superb.

mglik OP
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A brand new result of the unique performance of the AGDs is that every record in my collection is now highly listenable, to say the least. Regardless of recording quality, the AGDs bring out the essential beauty. Quite a bargain for a whole new LP collection!
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