I am 85 and have been fiddling with audio since the age of 10. I have owned quite a few good reasonably priced tube amps in my life. Because of the hastle of tube changing, I recently went in a simpler direction and bought a Rogue DragoN.(Hybrid class D). After 3 months I have been very satisfied with this amp. In short it produces excellent sound referring to all critical aspects. I have not seen more than two reviews, but I, myself, recommend it.
Competitive class D amp suggestions
I have been Class D fun since a few years ago when i bought my first class D amp. I like the concept, in general, and all the attractive features of this class of amplifiers. I tried 4 different ones, currently i stayed with one of them that i consider to be the best among all four amps. I do enjoy and like it. At the same time, my 5 watts SET amplifier (with more than 100 times higher distortion according to the specs) gives more natural and (surprisingly) notably cleaner sound (THD of the class D amp is 0.001). The soundstage of the class D amp is not so bad but that of the tube one is still better.
I remain attracted by class D amps though.
Any fresh suggestions on reasonably priced class D amps (i mean excluding non-reasonably priced class D amps, e.g., Merrill amplifiers)?
Any comments on non-reasonably priced class D amps are also welcome (so far i was not able to audition many class D amps and am curious if there are some which could really compete with Class A).