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The revolution has begun!

Digital amps along with digital xovers are the future.....and you can have it NOW. I am not going to say that a $1400 Peachtree GaN1 amp will sound better than a $120K MSB Select, $145K Boulder Preamp and Bouder $250K mono blocks with $20K worth of cables in between (over half a million plus power cords and amp stands)......but it did beat the Holo May KTE with the Holo Serene Pre and Kinki B7 mono blocks with $1000 worth of interconnects ($13k). So what will it take to beat this $200 digital board from Elegant Audio Solutions powered from a $100 switching power supply? With a digital amp you do not need a DAC or a preamp or regular amp with feedback, tubes, or transistors. With digital amps you can bi or triamp your speaker drivers directly without the distortion of passive components. In fact, I would bet that if you bought two GaN 1 amps, bought the $600 digital xover from minisdp (with great linear supply and great coax cables) and biamped some drivers directly that it would sound better than most $50K systems. You could get 2 12 inch woofs and mount them on an open baffle and put a beryllium tweenter on top and set the xover to 1K or less (48db per octave). You hardwire your speaker cable to the woofers voice coil wires and use Music Purifiers and Ground Enhancers on each driver.....Bybee Clarifiers on the back of the woofer magnets.......speaker wires hardwired via plastic clamps into the amps (no binding posts or spades allowed here!). Of course, you can triamp.....and manufacturers will soon have powered digital speaker so all you will need is a source.

There will be other manufacturers designing and building digital amps that will (no doubt) be better than the EAS boards.....but they will come at a price. These, yet to be made digital amps will blow the industry wide open....as no more big heavy expensive boxes will ever need to be purchased......but what EAS has not is fantastic. When I do some mods to the Peachtree amp next month it should get a step or two better. Have fun!

http://tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/The_Audio_Revolution_has_begun.html

I have started a webpage about all this and more and will be updating it continuously.

ricevs
gregdude
222 posts
 

Lol

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stereo5
6,260 posts
 

Class D is not for me.  Guess I’m not classy enough. 

kuribo
524 posts
 

more hyperbole, more tweak scams. Boring.

fatdaddy2
368 posts
 

My amp's better than your amp, my amp's better than yours; my amp's better 'cause it eats Kennel Ration, my amp's better than yours.

ricevs OP
1,453 posts
 

This is not a "normal Class D amp".  It changes PCM to PWM in software and then drives a GaN based class D output stage.  It is basically a DAC....a power DAC.  The advantage is.....no preamp, no normal DAC, no normal amp and no analog cables in between.  If the "less is more" thang works (and usually it does)...then this is the shortest signal path in existence.....especially when using a digital xover and then you don't need veiled sounding coils, caps, and resistors inside your speaker......this will blow your mind......but, most of you do not understand this or believe otherwise.....that is fine.  For those who really look into this.....they know.....they know this is the revolution that will change forever how amps and speakers are made.....will take at least 5 years to fully be in place as ALL the dealers hate this idea (cannot sell their big, heavy and expensive multi box systems), and most of the manufacturers are already invested in the old paradigm and want to sell you their heavy expensive boxes.  The Peachtree GaN 1 weighs 12 lbs. (200 watts a channel).

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