It's been a minute since my previous reply. Since then I have been enjoying an EVS 1200, Ric Schultz's highly tweaked take on IcePower
dual 1200AS
modules. And I loved it from the start as its 1200 wpc provides the authority my volumetrically large room needs to properly energize it.
Over those ~ 2 years, my cables have gone through a significant upgrade, and, I replaced my Emerald Physics (EP) KCIIs with EP 3.4s (12" concentric woofer with 1" polyester tweeters), but due to ignorance I never got around to replacing my optical cable with coax. Instead, thinking the dac in my Audio Alchemy DDP-1 + PS 5 needed upgrading. Not having the money to make a huge DAC/PRE investment, I tried a 1.0m Pangea Premier SE coax which was on sale from Audio Advisors.
I started a thread to discuss my journey, which included replacing the 1.0m with 1.5m then on to their 1.5m XL which is much more intimate, had much better bass (which is now way better) but slightly rolled off highs, until... Last night, after ~ 50 hours over a period of 5 days, the HFs opened up, and, bass/mids have really blossomed. Fantastic value for $150. How much better the more expensive coax cables are, I may never know.
The moral here is if one is not happy with what they're hearing from class D, it could be their cables
hth
Over those ~ 2 years, my cables have gone through a significant upgrade, and, I replaced my Emerald Physics (EP) KCIIs with EP 3.4s (12" concentric woofer with 1" polyester tweeters), but due to ignorance I never got around to replacing my optical cable with coax. Instead, thinking the dac in my Audio Alchemy DDP-1 + PS 5 needed upgrading. Not having the money to make a huge DAC/PRE investment, I tried a 1.0m Pangea Premier SE coax which was on sale from Audio Advisors.
I started a thread to discuss my journey, which included replacing the 1.0m with 1.5m then on to their 1.5m XL which is much more intimate, had much better bass (which is now way better) but slightly rolled off highs, until... Last night, after ~ 50 hours over a period of 5 days, the HFs opened up, and, bass/mids have really blossomed. Fantastic value for $150. How much better the more expensive coax cables are, I may never know.
The moral here is if one is not happy with what they're hearing from class D, it could be their cables
hth