ICE Amps for classical music?

Hello Gents ,

1. The Bel canto was not mine and is well broken in , it has been in this system for more than a yr and replaced a Krell
KSA 250 .

2. It was being driven by an ARC - SS not tubes ..

3. The difference was not maybe, let's try again , it was night and day , the Bel Canto had a very hard sound by comparison to the threshold. The opinions i had voiced previously were shared by all including the owner of the bel canto .

4. I would believe those that do not hear this hardness may have speakers that are not very revealing in the upper registers and if so , then i can see very good mating with the Bel canto.

5. The bass was hands down better on the Threshold , the Bel Canto bass was muddy and never had the extension.

6. As i had said previously , the Bel canto was more extended on the top and was more open , but we all felt it did so at the expense of sounding very grainy and hard by comparison. The more one listened , the less you were inclined to go back....

Again very unusual everyone in the room came to the same conclusion , 3 off the 5, own class-d , i can state without reservation "we" never expected this result , well not such an unanimous decision .

The model Bel Canto? 500M

Regards,

Audiofefeil, Upsampling, perhaps. Oversampling NO. I have proved that here many times to various people to their satisfaction. Class D is nothing like any tube or solid state amp;

Every cable that has gone through here have announced themselves according to their insulation regardless of price. They produce a haze of white noise on a fine Class D system.

These are not a matter of choice for class D owners. They are a matter of realistic sound versus poor hifi, as the Weseixas test with Sony exemplified.

I stand by my words, and your countering does no good to those who choose class D amps.

You are a dealer, your rant exposing motive.

Bill, inadvertently you have used a term that can be interpreted as a remark "ad hominem".. .

From the American heritage Dictionary:
1. disingenuous. adjective. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... the most disagreeable traits of his time"
(David Cannadine).

I am of course positive you did not mean any of it. I am sure you agree that we should maintain the most urbane level of discourse on this board.

Thanks for your help, Guido

Thank you Weseixas, could you post the exact system configuration you used in the test, including cabling/PCs complement? If you already have, my apologies.

How long had the 2 amplifiers been warmed up before being inserted into the active/live audio chain?

I am not trying to dispute your opinions. . . just hoping to get complete context, so your findings gain greater applicability. G.

Is it possible the BC was revealing something in the source if the high end sounded "grainy"? Just speculating. I do not hear anything resembling grainy in my setup.

More info on what was listened to and SOn source model, ICs, etc. would add some context as GC suggests.

Muddy bass? That baffles me. Having owned Maggies prior, I'm wondering if the BC is exposing anything there? Bass dynamics on Maggies are a lot different than what I am running these days.

My house is wired with commercial grade 4 conductor moderate gauge copper stranded and vinyl shielded speaker wire, nothing fancy, and performance even with that is fine, though perhaps not quite as open and extended as the Audioquest cv6 SCs I run to one pair in the same room as the electronics.

Just speculating...