A great article on Class D/switching amps

I'm a subscriber of The Absolute Sound, but I didn't receive any issue containing the article you've mentioned.

Chris

I dropped my subscription to TAS a while back. Can anyone offer what specific issue this article is in? Sean
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hey sean you can down load tas, i agree with chris martens view on the subject, mike

Sean, it's the November 2006 Issue 166.

Good, bad, or crooked, I love the audio press. If nothing else I've been turned onto many artist, via their record reviews, that I would of most certainly overlooked. For the most part they due their job of informing us to the best of their abilities and I mean that in the positive sense. The ability to give a product a negative review yet leave you feeling that the product may still hold promise in your system and side stepping the truly bogus products is as it should be.

TAS has awarded one of these class D amplifiers their Amplifier Of 2005. Then in this roundup/shootout they inform us that all but one has issues and that one was not the amp of 2005.

The true beauty of this class D article shows the reader exactly how ludicrous it is for the reader to get a clear picture of a products performance when no two writers are using the same equipment, regardless of their personal tastes? I believe most of these writers are very well experienced to preform this task, but when they rely on their sonic memory or refer to their notes of a past review it becomes obvious that the method is extremely flawed. Blah, blah, blah.

Class D has been around for some time but it's only been in the past few years that these designs have made stunning progress. I find class D to be one of the most exciting technologies in fidelity today. The investment is small, listen for yourself.

It is the cover story on Issue #166, dated November 2006. You can also download it (for a $10 fee) at
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/current.html