"D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why?

Dcstep, Unlike me ;D, my system is very very sensitive to everything..... especially criticism :D

My Scintillas have 40 feet of gossamer light naked ribbons. And they just do HF. The highs are audibly infinite. In conjunction with my H2O amps, twice improved, I have Henry Ho's Fire preamp too.

I like the NOS Audio Note DAC for it's purity. There is no filter software messing with it.

Tube changes, cable changes, speaker placement, are a devil's playground. I think I just lucked out.

i have auditioned two versions--the nuforce 9's and the raptors. both amps retail for about $5000. they remind me of a typical transistor amp. they are capable in the region below 200 hz and are deficient above 200 hz.

Well said Muralman1. Ultimately, the owner's satisfaction is most important and you've apparently acheived that.

Dave

This hobby is so subjective and system dependent that individual opinion, whether it be from a casual user or even professional reviewers, is almost useless. The handling of The Absolute Sound's reviews of the NuForce 9SE "Amplifier Of The Year", its inclusion in their class D shootout, and recently the 9SE v2, is a wonderful example of subjective audio opinion and editorial disagreement.

Compared to my linear solid state and tube amplifiers class D amplifiers have taken the most effort to integrate into my system to enjoy their full potential and an understandable reason for many of the negative experiences. I'm personally very skeptical of any reference of class D amplifiers sounding tube like. While there may be certain areas were the two may reach a similar timbre their general presentations are different. You like the sound of tubes, buy a tube amp.

This months The Absolute Sound has a review of Nuforce Ref 9 SE V2 amps that Chris Martens gave a very positive review of.

I have been using these class d proprietary amps for quite a while. I took my standard Ref 9 of almost three years ago through Nuforce upgrade plan to SE then V2. The upgrades being very reasonable and well worth the small price for the latest technology IMO. The first version to my ears did not have the problems that Martens refers to in the new review, he did the original ref 9 back in TAS issue 158.

Nuforce like most audio companies offer an in home trial for system matching.

My system with class d powering it has won over my doubts with superior sound and total musical enjoyment. I am not pushing these amps just giving my experience with class d.