New amp being touted as among the best ever......


....possibly hyperbole but Hi-Fi News in the UK raving about the Diavlet D-Premier amplifer.

Apparently it has patented a new hybrid of Class A and Class D technology. It sounds very interesting, looks unique and would appear to be a must hear for those who are interested in high quality servers where apparently it excels-although I'd be interested to hear what it can do with any source.

Pretty expensive I believe at £12000 or approx $18000.

It looks very interesting and it's not every review you read where you really want to hear the thing.....

Here's their website, quite a lot of info on there if you browse about.
http://www.devialet.com/
ben_campbell

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Maybe I do not remember correctly however, I seem to recall that this amp converts to digital what comes in the analogue inputs. That seems to be very strange. Can anyone explain why this is done?
Mapman, thanks. I still think it's odd that an amp will take the analogue signal produced from a DSD recording and digitize it at 96khz in order to amplify it. That seems like a reduction. Additionally, many of us remember from the days of audio cassettes, that recordings of recordings tend to degrade the sound quality.