Hi Matt, I am not surprised you love Veritas... like the Mola-Mola Kaluga, the Rowland M825 stereo and M925 mono, the Merrill Veritas use the amazing Ncore NC1200 power conversion modules designed by Bruno Putzeys at Hypex.... These modules are incredibly high starting points for an amp.
Merril has then chosen the conservative approach on Veritas. From a pure active circuit design point of view, one might consider Veritas a basic NCore implementation... However, what Merrill has done is to surround the modules and matching NCore unregulated SMPS with high quality and carefully chosen parts that work in wonderful sinergy with the active components from Hypex to make real music without distortions and artifacts... Internal wiring and XLR connectors from Cardas, IEC from Furutech, StillPoint footers, largely non resonant milled chassis, and mechanical dampeners for internal components.
Could you do markedly better than Veritas? Sure, but more than likely you would need to be prepared for a significant investment up the NCore chain.... Like $18K for The Veritas Siamese Twin monos with two NCore NC1200 modules per side that I suspect might deliver even more authority than Veritas, or the over $32K Rowland M825 stereo, which pushes the NCore potential to its limits with a cost no object power supply, regulation, and I/O design.
There is also the very interesting $15K Mola-Mola Mono... A fine NCore implementation, which uses custom NC1200 modules I believe.... I did like it quite a bit at RMAF, but not having had Mola-Mola in my system yet, I cannot guess the audible difference with Veritas.
Guido
Merril has then chosen the conservative approach on Veritas. From a pure active circuit design point of view, one might consider Veritas a basic NCore implementation... However, what Merrill has done is to surround the modules and matching NCore unregulated SMPS with high quality and carefully chosen parts that work in wonderful sinergy with the active components from Hypex to make real music without distortions and artifacts... Internal wiring and XLR connectors from Cardas, IEC from Furutech, StillPoint footers, largely non resonant milled chassis, and mechanical dampeners for internal components.
Could you do markedly better than Veritas? Sure, but more than likely you would need to be prepared for a significant investment up the NCore chain.... Like $18K for The Veritas Siamese Twin monos with two NCore NC1200 modules per side that I suspect might deliver even more authority than Veritas, or the over $32K Rowland M825 stereo, which pushes the NCore potential to its limits with a cost no object power supply, regulation, and I/O design.
There is also the very interesting $15K Mola-Mola Mono... A fine NCore implementation, which uses custom NC1200 modules I believe.... I did like it quite a bit at RMAF, but not having had Mola-Mola in my system yet, I cannot guess the audible difference with Veritas.
Guido