I was looking to change mine NAD C370 (For a class D amp) who had a faulty protection circuit which is fixed and some other nearby strategic capacitors where also changed for around 50,- Euro on cost an materials. Than it occurred to me that a total revision on my NAD was only 350,- Euro to make him even sound better (probable) an will last another 25 years or so. Another thing is i run 2 sets of speakers close monitoring an far-field the integrated preamp gives me all possibilities to use one of the 2 sets with one click of a button. If i buy a class D amp i have to consider too look for a new separate preamp involving cost. Another thing to think about if something go’s wrong (as with my NAD) spare parts are cheap an are there for the foreseeable future if a high switching class D amp containing probably also specific programed firmware (wich is not free availeble for upload) stops working it is likely you can dump it with in 10 years time.
So i think we don’t have enough reliability data regarding class D amp’s but for sure regarding technolgy, low energie use an sound quality Class D amp’s are the way forward imo
So i think we don’t have enough reliability data regarding class D amp’s but for sure regarding technolgy, low energie use an sound quality Class D amp’s are the way forward imo