arafiq Yes, understand i said design is key. Not all GAN amps are are equal. The AGD design is excellent which equals excellent SQ. Hope you understand now. Don't let one particular member muddy the water for you, he's continuing to bury himself. |
I had been on the class D roller coaster for over a decade and was about to throw in the towel. Then someone here on this forum mentioned the AGD Audion, i thought ok i will give these a try. Needless to say i was taken back everything my WAVAC 300b could do the AGD's could do better. And i have the entry level amps. So yes you can have the SQ of a tube amp and take the best of a SS amp within a class D amp IF designed properly from the start. Having to do mods tells me design is in question. |
Anything bought today could be considered outdated tomorrow, what you never buy anything because it will eventually become outdated? He did get it right the first time but like anything products evolve. Do a Google search for Alberto you will find his background is pretty amazing, the work he has done with the GAN tech which he holds several patents for is very important for audio he did not go to a parts store for GAN he designed his GAN products. I have heard several other GAN amps and they cannot compare to the AGD's period he knows how to design a circuit using GAN. |
jjss49 I share your thoughts about the AGD's, you can have your cake and eat it too. |
Class D can dazzle in the beginning but as your experiencing the typical class D faults start to raise their ugly head even with GAN. Design is key there is no way around it just because it it uses GAN does not mean great sound. Too many think GAN is a stairway to heaven it can be but only if your good at designing ones circuit, these off the shelf boards in my experience come up short. There is less than a handful of class D amps that can play with the big boys. Most buying these lesser class D amps are looking for a bargain and will convince themselves that they have found it and for them maybe they have. If i were manufacturing these amps and saw posts about mods making the amps sound so much better i would really be upset. Most consumers will not view this as a positive but as a negative. |
A product would never come to market. There is a price segment for each component, a manufacture could have added another 1k by adding an extra this and that but now it’s no longer a 3k amp which was the attraction in the first place, this being done to a new to the market product is not what the manufacture wants to see, it’s different if you have an outdated product and wish too upgrade to current performance. Otherwise it shows that said product is ok but needs help which in this instance seems to be the case. |
rixthetrick Not saying your wrong but myself having once been in the industry as a manufacture i'm looking at it from a manufactures point of view. Nothing more. |
