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In Reply to: RE: Got a box of ($100.00 Class D amps . . . posted by Billy Wonka on January 04, 2018 at 20:40:26
again... i think a LOT of hate for class D, in general, is from people who prefer a warm & lush tubes/NAD/mc intosh/marantz kind of sound than a neutral/clinical one, which isn't fair as they'd have similar sentiments about a lot of uncolored gear.
i tend to HATE thick & warm sound which, TO ME, sounds "dull and lifeless" like turning the air in a room into syrup.
blaming class D for lack of euphonics just isn't fair. try putting a tube amp in front of one and THEN see if class D is capable of reporting THAT sound faithfully.
everyone seems to have forgotten that many years ago, when halcro 1st generation class D amps came out, many reviewers were raving they were "the best in the world".
So there should be thousands of these amps around, built in high end systems, in reviewers' systems, to be used as a high bar for a reference point. But the last time I've heard them mentioned or seen them in print was...geez, I don't know..., over 10 years ago, maybe.
Why is that, if it is the best and reviewers are still climbing ever higher in the price ranges for amplification? It's nothing to read about $50-$150K amps from Air Tight, Constellation, VAC, Lamm, Boulder, CH, Soulution, anymore. Might be considered a bargain by now! 8-)
well, i'm sure a big part of that was that they stopped making sonic impacts soon after they started getting popular. i bought mine for $20 just when the price was starting to climb, and in less than a year, if i remember right, they were gone, and came back a year later as black dayton amps which i think are gone too.i don't trust magazine reviews when all of their bias is towards expensive gear... namely the same gear that buys their advertising and there IS a "pay to play rule" in said propaganda. i found that out talking to a shop owner who had his own product that no-one would review unless he bought advertising.
besides that, i tend to think of expensive hifi gear as a ripoff because it wasn't $4,000 klipsch lascalas, big tinfoil sounding maggies, or $1,000 JBL etc. towers etc. that got me into hifi... it was a $100 pair of infinities that blew my mind with their speed, detail, imaging, and total lack of either port or cabinet resonances. i still think acoustic suspension sub/sat is the only correct way to build a cone based system after that... and see a conspiracy to suppress acoustic suspension because it proves that big sloppy bass ported speakers with cabinets that fail the knock test are a ripoff.
i'm biased AGAINST expensive gear though i have heard smaller maggies sound gorgeous on tubes... B&W 800s on mc intosh sound laid back & detailed (if not thump with conviction) and vandersteen 5As sound lovely, but way too thick & lush for my tastes on mc cormack with an original 9giant killing... non digital sounding) audioquest dragonfly...
the dragonfly impressed me the most there! LOL
Edits: 01/17/18
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