Let me help you from a different perspective.....
With my past experience with non-subwoofer Class D amps, you could get a lot of performance at a much lower price. But the very best class Ds are still nowhere near the reference level that I experienced.
Say, to get to 75% of my listening enjoyment (100% = I’d listen to it whenever I got free time; 50% = nice background music while I am working; 25% = I am being polite to try an loaner; 5% = oh please)
My investment could be broken down like this:
Class A: $3500
Class A/B: $5000 (there just isn’t that many great A/Bs out there in my experience, sorry)
Class D: $1500 (but that’s pushing it ... it’s 40% for most ... never got past 80% with supposedly cream of the crop)
I actually think this is a more systematic way of rating how much one loves his/her setup. It's independent of how busy you are, how much free time you have. Just by relative % of time you cannot refuse the urge to listen.
With my past experience with non-subwoofer Class D amps, you could get a lot of performance at a much lower price. But the very best class Ds are still nowhere near the reference level that I experienced.
Say, to get to 75% of my listening enjoyment (100% = I’d listen to it whenever I got free time; 50% = nice background music while I am working; 25% = I am being polite to try an loaner; 5% = oh please)
My investment could be broken down like this:
Class A: $3500
Class A/B: $5000 (there just isn’t that many great A/Bs out there in my experience, sorry)
Class D: $1500 (but that’s pushing it ... it’s 40% for most ... never got past 80% with supposedly cream of the crop)
I actually think this is a more systematic way of rating how much one loves his/her setup. It's independent of how busy you are, how much free time you have. Just by relative % of time you cannot refuse the urge to listen.