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Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing

Today I picked up my Atma-Sphere Class D Amps. These aren’t broken in yet. And they are simply amazing. I’ve listen to a lot of High End Class D. Some that cost many times what Atma-Sphere Class D costs. I wasn’t a fan of any of them. But these amps are amazing. I really expected to hate them. So my expectations were low. The Details are of what I’ve never heard from any other amps. They are extremely neutral. To say the realism is is extremely good is a gross understatement. They are so transparent it’s scary. These amps just grab you and suck you into the music. After I live with them some and get them broken in. And do some comparisons to some other high end Amps Solid State, Tubes and Class D’s, also in other systems I’ll do a more comprehensive review. But for now, these are simply amazing amps.. Congrats to Ralph and his team. You guys nailed on these.

 

 

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pstores OP
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@kuribo 

  Watch some of Ralph’s interviews and he pretty much lays it out why the new adventure. 

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kuribo
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@pstores

Sure, I could look up the patent, or the designer could explain it himself and provide his take on what problem it was designed to solve and why.

With all due respect, while your experience with a wide variety of amps is impressive on its face, all it really means to me is that you have tried a wide variety of amps. I can perhaps assume you are confident in your choice based on that wide audition experience. Your preferences and experiences can not be extrapolated to predict my own, as such, they are useless to me and others in that regard.

I have read and watched the interviews and understand the why- I am more interested in the how. There are many traditional tube amp companies who have seen the future and are now marketing class d amps. Not hard to understand the why.

juanmanuelfangioii
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@kuribo has a crush on Bruno and any other designer, engineer is an abomination in his eyes. The only time he posts is when people are praising a product that is not  made by his boy Bruno. Then his energy is spent slamming it when he knows nothing of it.

Ralph stays above the fray and continues to sell his products and gains a larger following in spite of Kuribo.

I have personally owned Purify equipped Integrated and it was very bland, soulless,  uninspiring. Guess that is why there is so many of these units for sale here and at USAM. 
 

Kuribo you are entitled to your opinions and I chose to use a spec sheet as only one leg of the decision process, the most important being how a piece will sound in my system paired with the equipment I already own. Often the spec sheet looses.

This is more often than not, an emotional process and the music has to touch your soul. Data be dammed. 

kuribo
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@juanmanuelfangioii 

The fact is I have praised other class d amps as well designed- Orchard for one. I respect and admire good engineering and state of the art results regardless of the name attached. Your efforts to characterize my admiration as some sort of personality worship are immature and show you to be a shallow person not worthy of consideration.

 

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