"Mytek Empire monoblock power amps, with GaN based technology."

I believe he is talking about the Technics.....It is a Technics thread  

Yes I can see now you "could" be right, but I was discussing the new Mytek Empire  before his post, and then he posted.

If it is confirmed the that it is the Technics SU-R1000 that is 1.5mhz switching frequency that's great also. I believe that it could be destined for great things and is going to be something to rival the Gryphon and Luxman integrateds maybe, at half the price, and with all the goodies it has.

No, I don’t think so.
If you go to that thread I say they (Mytek) mentions "higher switching", and I queery "But don’t give any details of the switching speed" then jwcondo says

"It does indeed use the 1.5 mhZ switching frequency. I am a dealer and I should be receiving the first one in Canada next week as they have landed on our shores.
Excited to experiment with all this new technology.
Happy Listening....John"
soundlovers.ca

Only he will be able to say positive and give us a link to it.

 

04-07-2021 jwcondo 6:30am
Greetings from Medicine Hat Alberta Canada,
It does indeed use the 1.5 mhZ switching frequency. I am a dealer and I should be receiving the first one in Canada next week as they have landed on our shores.
Excited to experiment with all this new technology.
Happy Listening....John
soundlovers.ca

@jwcondo  jwcondo

Can you tell us where you got this 1.5mhz switching frequency info from?

Cheers George

Ask to have Tammy contact you

That’s what was done, too late now this thread now stays.

You’ll only get noise with high (100k) input impedance amps, if there’s nothing plugged into that input, which no-one would do anyway.
Think I remember all Rouge M120 and M150 monoblocks when I had them here for reco all had 1meg ohm input impedance, anything could drive them.

Cheers George

Just got an email back from admin, they can’t do it.

Input impedance is too low for many good tube preamps. 10k is just too low. I really dislike it when I see amps with input impedances that low. Just a shame and should be avoided by the builder.

Yes I mentioned this also in another thread, that it’s not tube preamp friendly or passive pre friendly.

It’s just wrong and there is really no reason (except one) to design poweramps to have input impedances this low, they should all be >47kohm (which was the industry standard) like many tube and even SS amps are.

I said "except one" reason.
Years ago, there was a power amp manufacturer that did the same silly low input impedance, and it gave his 10ohm output impedance preamp the sonic edge into his poweramp/s  over all other preamps in and A/B shootouts. (marketing ploy??)

Cheers George

Thanks, missed it, I’ll ask admin to delete my thread.

Cheers George