D-Sonic vs Wyred vs ....

"But what I heard there was beyond painful"..spoken like a true politician. There are lots of other relevant ears out there who own Wyred that have opposite opinions that are very positive that I have read, and yes I have listened to class d amps over the years including owning a pair of Nuforce REF 9 MKII's in 2007.

Me a politician... What an amusing concept *grins!*

Glad you are in a position to tell us about your own experience with NuForce Audiozen... I am looking forward to reading them. When you eventually listen to latest W4S, please do add your live impressions. G.

Audiozen,

You deliver a lot of hard conclusions based on readings/research it seems.

Research/learning is fine, but you should lighten up on publishing firm final conclusions among designs unless you have actually heard and compared specifically.

Technical specs/parameters are useful guidelines but alone never tell the whole story.

Tell me what's out there that seems to offer some innovation, but from there I am mainly interested in what these things sound like relative to each other. Reviewer-like assessments in lieu of reviewer actually hearing the thing being assessed is of very limited value frankly and comes across as having a hidden agenda.

God!..I just love a good pot of stew on the stove.

I currently have the D-Sonic M3 1200-S and have to say it is possibly the best amp I have ever had. I have owned the Wyred ST-500 for several years and loved it. I then went to a Bel Canto Ref 150S, which I thought was more transparent and neutral than the Wyred, although the St-500 has a pleasing roundness in the mid-range that gave hard rock real weight. I then bought the mAmps which were definitely more powerful than the Ref150S but I never was happy with the sound - I personally preferred the original ST-500. I then switched to the D-Sonic (with a short foray to a Parasound A21 but that's another story) and the difference is literally "jump-out-of-your-seat, holy crap, I can't believe this" better.

The other posters have it right - Dennis may not talk like an audiophile but this amp is the real goods. Words like "transparent", "neutral" etc. don't really capture what this amp is like - there is refinement,transparency, slam etc. etc. but above all there is a sense of flow and ease that I simply have not heard with any other amp - and I've had a lot of good amps in my system over the years. In the absence of a technical background, I can't claim that it is the Abletec technology that is responsible for this but it sure seems that way. It is, in my view, THE amp to beat at a real world price. Absolutely spectacular.