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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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I would love to know what xover, digital amps, power supplies and speaker drivers you use......this is very rare. I had a friend a long time ago that used the Panasonic receivers that had digital amps in them in a multi-amp system.......yes, correct....not new....but NOT very known. I know of no commercial speaker system in the world that is multi-amped with digital amps......you are just one of a handful of people around the world. After I spread the news to the whole planet.....he he....there will be many who will try this and laugh and cry with glee with the results.....and for very little (relatively) money put out.

People....wake up. This is not a normal class D amp like the Orchard, or Purifi, or Ncore, or Ice or AGD or Atmasphere or Merrill or Pascal, etc. This is a digital input class D amp (like the Technics and Lyngdorf)......this kind of amp changes the PCM signal directly to PWM (class d type of output stage). This type of amp eliminates your normal DAC and preamp......it is a DAC....it is a power DAC.....you cannot directly compare the two. One is driven by a DAC and has analog stages....the digital amp is driven by a digital source and has NO Normal ANALOG stages of gain......way more simple.......less is more.

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bigtwin
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@ricevs For me, the review I posted above said it all. Yes he was impressed with the sound given the price point of the amp. But the final word was it doesn’t produce the sound of amps costing 5 or 10 times as much. If $3000 is your budget for an amp, then the Class D is a viable option. But....... it's not the be all and end all to amplificatioin. Glad you are so happy with your equipment. Now time to let other be happy with theirs? Cheers.

moonwatcher
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" It changes PCM to PWM in software and then drives a GaN based class D output stage."  So, only PCM? Can't just take in the more analog sounding (your mileage may vary) DSD and be done with it? 

And if it can drive a GaN based class D output stage, why can't it just as well drive a class A or class AB output stage? Curious. 

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mbmi
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I have the Peachtree GaN 400...400 watt GaNfet amp. For $2500 there is no amp near it...a/b or Gan that is as smooth and musical. More so than my famed 845 tube amp. Must be paired with tube preamp ( Audio-gd). My LSR+ Maggies sing like a 5K-10K speaker. Sorry class A/ B fans. This is the way to get more of a Musical...pure sound and not at all etched. A/B is more etched and bright than a good quality GanFet. The AGD at 10 K is the best GAN amp but the GaN 400 isn’t far behind for 1/4 the cost. Try to find one used. Impossible.

ricevs OP
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bigtwin,  You don't understand.  How many times do I have to state this:  This is not a normal Class D amp like the Orchard in the review you posted.  The reviewer has never heard this "digital" amp so he has no reference to this amp nor do you.

Peachtree 400.....AGD.....these are all normal class D that require a Dac in front of it and analog stages in the class D amp.......THIS IS DIFFERENT.  This thread is not about normal class D........but this a DIGITAL AMP!!!!!

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