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ICE Amps for classical music?

I listen to classical orchestral music at heavy volume. I detest reproduced music for always sounding more or less electronic and not acoustic. Real music is beautiful in a way reproduced music--so far at least-- never is. I have become curious about Wyred4sound amps because of low price and high watts. I am wondering if any of you "mostly classical" listeners have heard these amps and feel they do no more damage to music than amps which are NOT ICE amps. I am using a Plinius SA100 now and have used a VAC 100/100,
a Bedini Classic 100/100, a Music Reference RM-9, and other tube and solid state amps. They all had their pluses and minuses, of course, but for least electronic, clearly the Bedini was the winner. So what about ICE amps?
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rx8man
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Class D amps are for all types of music.

Clean AC and a solid, musical source with other matching components / cables etc, put my system much further ahead than my previous, and I transcended outta Class A and Tube mono amps,
no looking back.
muralman1
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Rx8man, yessir.... NO LOOKING BACK
weseixas
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rx8man ,

what brand class-d ?
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rx8man
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Muralman1, more people will discover Class D, it takes time and acceptance to overcome skepticism and doubting.

I'm also a big proponent of NOS Dacs, esp. AD1865.

I KNOW your Scintillas rock-out (my 1st high-end experience)
I still talk to the guy who used to own Golden Gramaphone in Northern Oh. about it !

Weseixas, NuForce Ref 9V2-SE.
michael_moskowich
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"For driving class D amps, I have preferred SS Roland Capri ... over my tubed ARC Ref 3."

Hello Guido,

I also owned Roland Capri but after purchasing Spectron Musician 3 amps I got Joule-Electra LA-300ME line stage and this combination is much, much better then that with Capri. Try this preamp with your Roland 312 and you will be literally shocked how MUSICAL it will sound.

Mike
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