Audiozen, please consider watching your language... Whether or not my cerebrum -- or anyone else's cerebrum -- is operational or not, is a matter not material to the topic of this thread.
Back to our regularly scheduled programming... The problem is a confusion of terms caused mostly by the suppliers of class D power amplification modules... While strictly speaking, Pascal/AbleTec/Hypex may be correct in calling their products "amplifiers", without further qualifiers, the usage causes occasional misconceptions an unnecessary panic by audiophilic consumers.
For our purposes, It may be best to refer as "amplifier" the end product complete with the pretty metal box that you Audiozen purchase from our beloved designers/integrators, while the class D engine inside the box is best referred to as the ""amplification module", or the "power conversion module". The terms are largely interchangeable. Some power conversion modules may also include an integrated SMPS, others have an off-board SMPS which may or may not always be utilized by the OEM designer/manufacturer/integrator. in many entry level products, the power conversion module may be the only active components, in progressively more sophisticated implementations, the module is just one active component of a potentially complex circuitry.
D-Sonics is a designer/integrator who manufactures near Houston (TX) end-user entry-level power amplifiers which are based on Class-D power amplification/conversion modules and other component parts sourced from a potentially multi-national/global supply chain.
While Dennis has this far declined to discuss at any length the origin/brand/model of the modules, there exists some empirical evidence that D-Sonic may be using Pascal modules as engines in some of its power amplifiers, and Abletec modules in other ones.
G.
