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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
ricevs OP
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Some people come here to share their joy, others come here to make people and things wrong. The anti tweak objectivists (flat earthers) are just best left alone. They will never stop saying the same thing over and over. They want to fight and argue.....you can never "win" with these people as they will always want the last word.......If you ignore them.....they will just go away. They add nothing to the discussion as they have NEVER heard the things they complain about. Sad, but true.

What is sad that some people have no idea how magnificient they are.....and when you realize how amazing and deserving and beautiful you are.....you also realize that everyone is just the same.......we are all amazing......At that point you stop pointing your finger at people because you know it is all projection.......when you point a finger at someone.....three are pointing back at yourself.......YOU ONLY SEE YOURSELF IN OTHERS. More and more I see beauty and worthiness in everyone....including the anti tweakers.......heck someone has to take that stance......a noisy few waving their flag with all their passion.....how cute. Kisses and hugs for everyone......forever.

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nonoise
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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. 

Isn't this what Technics did a couple of years ago? It's a proven design that works very well and sounds fantastic. So many ways to implement it. 

All the best,
Nonoise

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asvjerry
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Thanks, ricevs..... I owe you some. ;)

Elons' learning the hard way....

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jerryg123
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To funny the illogical claims.

On this day in 1903 two brothers were told it was illogical for a man to fly. 

@kuribo said.

@clearthinker  Google is your friend. Let people believe what they believe.  

kuribo

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@jerryg123 


So no blind tests?  Your logic is flawed because they are not published here?

 

Sorry if this is over your head.

singintheblues
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Can’t wait for my GaN1 + Node combo to arrive!

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