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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). 

niodari

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yyzsantabarbara
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The T+A A200 Class D (Purifi) also looks interesting.

https://www.ta-hifi.de/en/audiosystems/series-200/a-200-power-amplifier/

 

yyzsantabarbara
5,122 posts
 

D-Sonic amps. I owned the "800s M3a" for a few months and was recently thinking of getting one back since I was considering a low cost and decent sounding amp. They use Pascal modules. I did not get it since I did some other changes the negated the need for an extra amp.

I did not perceive any harshness in my Voyager. It was just a very clean sound, especially so after the EVS mods. It certainly was not warm, like a new KRELL XD or a CODA #8. The Voyager was closer sonically to the Benchmark AHB2.

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