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The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D

There are many reasons to like one type of sound over another. Even among what are considered very good amplifiers there’s a broad range of tastes and preferences among audiophiles. Just ask a SET aficionado!

However, no class is more maligned, inappropriately, than Class D. To hear some regulars tell it, Class D sound will thin your blood, make your teeth fall out and ruin your enjoyment of just about everything because it sounds so (fill in a lot of tropes from the 1980’s here).

I’ve been listening to NAD’s prior collaboration with Bruno Putzy and I can tell with some confidence that none of those tired old tropes apply. For reasons related much more to tonal balance than anything else, I’m sticking with Class A/B in my main system, but with the introduction of the next gen Anthem AVR receivers and the NAD M33 I may be making the switch back to class D.

You don’t have to like the M33 or the Anthem’s but can we at least agree that it’s time to retire the old guard of reasons not to buy Class D? Lets lay those poor phantoms to rest.
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bigkidz
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Being in the business of building audio components, I wish that we could build one as good as our power amps but so far we have not been able to.  That being said, I find that systems that use class D amplification generally use another component in the system that seems to try to compensate for the Class D sound such as a tube preamp, etc.  Our main challenge is that we prefer tubes for sound they produce which is the dimension of the sound stage, decay of notes especially piano, etc.  I am not saying that there is no benefit at all, but our opinion is that we just do not prefer the sound in comparison.

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