Bel Canto eOne amps - Is this the future?

Muralman1...Really? I thought the ICE module was made in Europe.

Eladarford, the H2O is the sum of it's parts. The 500A ICE module is crucial to
H2O's success, but that chip has no power supply. This is not to say the H2O
is merely a Scandanavian chip stuck to a cap and torroid.

Muralman1....All the complexity, design originality, and parts count are in the ICE module. The H2O power supply is a simple brute force design. This may be a great approach, but it represents a small part of the overall amplifier.

By the way, I have nothing against European products. The UcD module that I like also comes from Europe.

Muralman1 - then what else it is ? Unless H2O modifies the ICEpower modules, H20 amps are nothing more than an american made box, a toroid, rectifying bridge, a couple of caps and some wiring. That's it. No more, no less.

For those who haven't seen the ICEpower module, which is a COMPLETE power amp, not a chip, looks like this:

http://www.icepower.bang-olufsen.com/sw2025.asp

And for comparison go to www.hypex.nl.

As the saying goes "There is more than one way to skin a cat" (IMHO all of them good).