Class D Amplification Announcement

+1 For AGD Audions

I used to be a die hard SET guy.

No more. And now no other amp but the AGD Class D.

Compared to any amp IME, AGD is in a class of its own.

A GaN based amp but the designer holds several patents from when he was a top exec at Infineon-major European chip company. One patent is for his proprietary, unique GaN module. He describes it as being dedicated to be used in Audio. Compared to other GaN chips designed for use in such things as radar,

The result are AGD amps that are superbly like real music.

All the best of SS and tubes… to put it mildly.

I have not heard the Merril or Atma-Sphere GaN amps.

I can only speak directly about all the tube and solid state amp I have owned.

And to a lessor degree, amps that I have heard at shows and friend’s homes.

The review by @jjss49, I feel, gives an accurate breakdown of AGD’s performance.

IME, the AGD Audions produce SQ that is different and unique. Partially, AGD’s designer clearly has a great ear. And partly, he has created an amp that reproduces all the “broad strokes” and, especially, the subtitles that take SQ from great to “real”. One key of these is hearing the phrasing of musicians. Something that is both subtitle and profound. I have only heard this quality with AGD.

I run my AGD Audios with an Atma-Sphere MP-1 preamp. 6SN7s and 12AT7s fir phono. 

Just got my AGD Audions back after they were upgraded to the latest revision-MK III. The power supplies were greatly improved. Before the upgrade they were not very good at powering my difficult to drive Quad 57s.

Now, they pick up the Quads and dance them around the room. Wow, what a difference! I was considering other amps but no longer. Can't imagine anything better.

Correction

The newest revision of the AGD Audions is MKII not MKIII.