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In Reply to: RE: Thanks! posted by KOCA on February 15, 2017 at 00:26:58
You didn't mention your speakers. I say this because Class D amps don't always match well with all speakers. In particular because of the design of Class D, speakers that have changes in impedance at the high end will suffer. OTOH, I use a Class D with my Magnepan 3.7i which have a purely resistive load and close to constant impedance and the amp performs great. When I auditioned the speakers at the dealer he connected them to much more expensive Ayre amp, but my Class D that I brought along was noticeably better. It's just like marriage - it's all about synergy and not necessarily about the individuals.
I married the perfect woman. The downside is everything that goes wrong is my fault.
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I have two sets of speakers. Older Audio Note AZ-1 (91db) and I bought the Andrew Jones's Elac Uni-Fi UB5 to sell the AZ-1s. BUT, although I did not give the Elac's enough time, I think I like the AZ-1s better. The sound I get from them is more neutral than UB5s.
I did a test between these speakers back and forth with 5 other family members. The track was Dave Brubeck's Take Five and there is this part where there are drums AND we played this part at least 5 times. Every time, every single of us found the AZ-1s to sound like real drum.
I think sadly (for now at least), I find the UB5s overrated. They are great speakers, don't get me wrong but I was expecting more I think. Yes, they are harder to drive than the AZ-1s but my Class D is around 100wpc at 8 ohms and that is plenty for most speakers around. Even enough for power hungry Magnepans.
To judge between two speakers listening to one track is really meaningless. It should take a lot of time and many pieces of music to make that determination
Alan
@Alan: I of course didn't judge with that passage only:) That was one example with the family only.
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