Class D Amplification Announcement


After 60 some odd years of disappointment, Class D has finally arrived. As per The Absolute Sound’s Jonathan Valin, the Borrenson-designed Aavik P-580 amp “is the first Class D amplifier I can recommend without the usual reservations. …the P-580 does not have the usual digital-like upper-mid/lower-treble glare or brick wall-like top-octave cut-off that Class D amps of the past have evinced.”

Past designers of Class D and audiophiles, rejoice; Michael Borrenson has finally realized the potential of Class D.

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It’s technology. It will change. I personally think we don’t much understand how our brain interprets reproduced sound, leading to a whole host of different personal preferences. I like Magnepan speakers. I can’t drive them with flea-watt amps. I think high-power Class A is environmentally irresponsible. Class D is a great choice. Give it a tube front end and find what you like.

“You can assume that he has.  The journalistic integrity of TAS is unquestionable.  Furthermore, I have never heard of Mr Valin being proven wrong.  His hearing and experience are so accurate that they are virtually objective.”

The sarcasm is strong in this one. 😁

 

I’m still playing with my Class A/B and it a good thing. This way they can have more time to prefect the tach.

in all seriousness, alberto guerro’s agd audion mono’s are the best sounding gan/class d amps i have heard, and while they have their own sound character, they are - to my ear - as good as the very best class a or a/b amps i have had, of which i have had countless

vastly superior to any hypex purifi or other non-gan module based amps i have had or heard, which to me seem to 'grey out' the music some harmonically even if the tonal balance is good