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In Reply to: Re: a small observation regarding class-D amplifiers posted by AbeCollins on May 15, 2005 at 00:50:24:
something like this: "This amplifier doesn't add any additional 'sound signature' to the recording". Because now even if the class D amp sound 'neither solid nor tubed', it still introduces some kind of distortions which some of the reviewers for the lack of better words describe as 'tube-like'.
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From what I'm reading so far, you don't much care for class d or tubes.What distortions are you talking about? I had a class d amp and didn't hear any class d specific distortions that you are alluding to. Have you listened to many class d amps lately?
thanks for the feedback. Which class D amp do you have anyway? I haven't heard any lately, but I did hear some good words about nuforce, Rick Schultz from tweakaudio even offers some extra tweaks, and also CIA has hypex-board-based class D amp, some folks at audiogon liked it a lot, there are some reviews coming.I'm interested in something fairly transparent, like BVAudio intergrated amp, but of course I would consider class D if the price tag is lower and the level of transparency is about the same.
I owned the PS Audio HCA-2 and auditioned the Audio Research 300.1. The HCA-2 was smooth but not as transparent as I'd like and not as extended in the treble. The ARC 300.1 was much more to my liking.
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