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Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few?

Hi, I'm in the market for new amps for Maggie 3.6r's and just wondered what your experiences/opinions are on digital amps.
The technology seems well developed, and the advantages seem very tangible 'on paper'. I spoke with a tech guy at Tact Audio concerning their S2150 amp, and the 'specs' are very impressive. They amps also provide the facility to replace the speaker x-over. In a 2-way speaker, you can use two digital amps and program each amp with the associated crossover parameters.
I also spoke yesterday with a real gentleman, Henry, the designer/founder of H2O digital amps. I found him by following a buzz on the apogee audio website, where people using the difficult to drive apogees are dumping off their big Krells and Pass amps, and getting in the queue for the H2O. The few people already using the H20's are raving about them.
Then of course there are the Spectron amps, though I read somewhere recently that they may be going out of business?

The point is, if this technology has matured, and these amps can compete with convential amps, and they are cheaper, lighter, give off less heat, generate higher watts from a smaller/lighter chasis, and.....wait for it....may actually sound better dollar for dollar, why don't we see more of them around?

Rooze
PS - I'm considering dropping big $$$$$ on a pair of new S2150 Tact digitals, please, please talk me out of it, and tell me these amps are crap....
rooze

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panny
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I am using a Panasonic 45 till I decide on what I want to do with my frontend. It is a steal for the $$ with only changing the shaver PC on it.

I do feel there are drawbacks to the Hi-Freq's,but considering the price and not getting the sterile,hard presentation which is often associted with Japanwse based amps I can see how these things shall promote satisfactory sonics for an affordable price for those not having the $$ to buy anything more expensive. Speaker matching is a must as I feel they are more up to the task of driving my monitors than the 3-ways. Luckily I find the monitors just as good to listen to as the 3-ways.

Another thing to mention is that these Digital Amp modules are not expensive to manufacture which makes me wary of investing to much for them. Take away the faceplate and there is not much in the way of expense.

Just my opinion!
panny
99 posts
 
AudioEng:The PC I thought brought up the performance somewhat and the synergy between speakers is paramount to getting exceptional sound.

What area's of modding have the most Impact to changing the characther?
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