Class D question...............

Martin Colloms addressed the question of class D amps in a recent HIFICRITIC. He concluded that their designers were ignoring factors that had always been considered important, listing 19 of them. He concluded, among other things:

What this means:
􀂄I consider that elements of the audio industry have exaggerated the need for High Fidelity enthusiasts to adopt ‘Class D’ amplification.
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The claimed efficiency advantage is largely valueless except to save for heat sinks for very large sub woofer amplifiers.
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High frequency and radio frequency noise is a vital issue and has not been sufficiently addressed with Class D designs. Class D amplifiers conduct and radiate substantial wide frequency range noise, both correlated and de-correlated.
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We know that high frequency noise degrades both the sound quality of the connected audio system and the amplifier itself.
HIFICRITIC:Are Class ‘D’ Amplifiers High Fidelity?

Other parts of this are on the HIFICRITIC web site.

One more time. Class D is as warm as the pre-amp you use.
Solid state sounds, well, solid state. A tube pre with a class d will sound detailed and warm. I went with a tube pre decades ago because I could not stand the sound of a cd player through a solid state pre and power amp. The Class d will faithfully reproduce what it is fed. Tripath, nuforce, UcD, Ice, there are a lot of Class D's. I have both a tripath and UcD based amps. The UcD is superior, but I would rather have the tripath than any Mosfet, JFet, amp. As long as I have the tube-pre.

Jw94055 is right.

Stanwal you have to know the audio business enablers choke at the thought big expensive amps can be usurped by less costly (less profitable) alternatives. It is in the publication's interest to prolong the golden audio stair case. Stereophile printed a similar article. There are many thousands of us who know better.

Stanwal, you may want to consider reading the mags a little less, while auditioning a little more away from the beten path. . . at least, if you still do not find any class D devices of your liking, you can speak out of personal experience, rather than from trite canonic rote.

Stanwal, I generally agree with you on most issues but you've totally missed the boat on this one.

Stop reading and start listening.

A person with your experience should know better.