Class D amps,bang for your buck ones

PS Audio trio A-100

I will look into that some,thanks.

Anyone familiar with the PS Audio HCA-2?

I bought a Virtue Audio ONE.2 and now I am upgrading the input caps to Sonicaps, I will report my findings here later.
I will be using a couple different PS.

The Virtue Audio ONE.2 with the input caps upgraded to Sonicaps, sounds wonderful.

It's smooth, dynamic and musical, very transparent. I would say it is one of the best amps I've had so far.

It's been breaking in for 10 days or so and I expect it to get even better with more time on the unit.

I would like to try some other Class D amps just for fun. like the Nuforce power amps.

The real upgrade with this amp (beside the Sonicaps) was the power supply I'm using.

It's an Astron LS-10A power supply and it maxes out the voltage the Virtue can handle, and makes it sound very powerful. It's funny how this little amp puts out a huge sound,but I guess the power supply is also part of the amp, just separated by a power cord. But, you can hide the power supply and just have the little Virtue exposed and blow peoples minds with it.....
fun amp.

For anyone investigating the Virtue amps, I recommend getting the TWO.2 amp instead of the ONE.2, because the TWO.2 will already have the better caps in it.

I personally thought the
Virtucaps that come with the ONE.2 and holds the amp way back.

The TWO.2 comes with Auricaps, which are superior.

But, I'm glad I got the Sonicaps, the sound is totally open with them.

Mr.t
Do you own a Virtue amp?

They're a tripath based amp.

I have acquired a W4S ST-250 amp, and LOVE it!!
I'm going back and forth between that and the Virtue right now and it's driving me crazy.

They're both soo good...

What to do?

I'll enjoy both.

I'm the third owner of the amp and I'm pretty sure its burned in.

It reminds me of a Forte 4a amp I used to have, but it's better....It's a keeper.

I want a Wyred preamp but can't bring myself to shell out that kind of dough.....I'm really curious too.
This ST-250 is the most impressive amp I have ever had, the last time I was so impressed with sonics is when I went from NAD to Accuphase. The look of the amp is kind of neither here nor there for me personally. But, to each his own, my systems is now getting very good, to the point where this is close to where I want to end up. I'm changing out my speaker cable to some Virtue stuff so we shall see if that gives me anymore gains...

I'm really enjoying my system more than ever and I'm VERY happy I tried this Wyred amp. I also want to get a Eastern Electric minimax DAC to use instead of my Arcam CD192 player.
The Arcam is very good and has done well at stepping up to the Wyred amps sonic upgrade, but I think something like the Minimax would even make the sound better!

I put an inexpensive Emotiva power cord on the Wyred amp and was not expecting much, but thing did improve considerably. The sound became more open. A cheap gain.

Thread update.
I use a few amps with a few different speakers.
Last year I bought a Crown XLS-1500 class D amp and it's wonderful. I like it better than the W4S , more extended and airy top end. These are around 300 dollars used. Cheers!