2. amps-preamps
  3. 158415-1464

best-sounding class D amp?

I'm not interested in starting another discussion about technology, or performance parameters. (You know who you are.)

I know that there are different brands and designs of modules used in these amps, and different implementations, with additional maker-specific circuitry around the module.

What I *am* interested in hearing about is first-hand listening impressions of the most natural, full-bodied class D amp you've heard, with a preference for those (few?) that hew to the slightly warmer rather than cooler side of neutral.

128x128twoleftears

Showing 2 responses by georgehifi

georgehifi's avatar
georgehifi
10,312 posts
 
Very ordinary, like it’s sibling Continuum II.
The 535 is almost $10k here in AU, makes the Behringer A800 for <$400 a real bargain or the Crown 1502 for less than < $1k. But then you don’t get that case?

Cheers George
georgehifi's avatar
georgehifi
10,312 posts
 
best-sounding class D amp?

Look at PASS amps much better than classl d pass on class d maybe in 10 years it will get better.


Best one I’ve heard so far had been at our club audio meeting, the Belcanto Ref 600M monoblocks which use Hypex NC500 with I believe their own buffer, they were very good into a very high end two-way that used the top Raven ribbon tweeter "almost" livable for me.
Then we put them on a pair of B&W 803D3’s and they were not as well received, upper/mid highs were a touch hard with glare yet subdued at the same time, we concluded that the Ref600’s liked the pure resistive loading that the Raven Ribbon gave around a constant 6ohms, but not the more complex loading the B&W upper range had, because the same B&W’s sounded sweet as with a Pass Labs linear amp we also had there.

Cheers George
More to discover