And....... one more thread on Audiogon decends into a gradeschool level brawl. I had such hopes for this site when I joined last year.
The revolution has begun!
Digital amps along with digital xovers are the future.....and you can have it NOW. I am not going to say that a $1400 Peachtree GaN1 amp will sound better than a $120K MSB Select, $145K Boulder Preamp and Bouder $250K mono blocks with $20K worth of cables in between (over half a million plus power cords and amp stands)......but it did beat the Holo May KTE with the Holo Serene Pre and Kinki B7 mono blocks with $1000 worth of interconnects ($13k). So what will it take to beat this $200 digital board from Elegant Audio Solutions powered from a $100 switching power supply? With a digital amp you do not need a DAC or a preamp or regular amp with feedback, tubes, or transistors. With digital amps you can bi or triamp your speaker drivers directly without the distortion of passive components. In fact, I would bet that if you bought two GaN 1 amps, bought the $600 digital xover from minisdp (with great linear supply and great coax cables) and biamped some drivers directly that it would sound better than most $50K systems. You could get 2 12 inch woofs and mount them on an open baffle and put a beryllium tweenter on top and set the xover to 1K or less (48db per octave). You hardwire your speaker cable to the woofers voice coil wires and use Music Purifiers and Ground Enhancers on each driver.....Bybee Clarifiers on the back of the woofer magnets.......speaker wires hardwired via plastic clamps into the amps (no binding posts or spades allowed here!). Of course, you can triamp.....and manufacturers will soon have powered digital speaker so all you will need is a source.
There will be other manufacturers designing and building digital amps that will (no doubt) be better than the EAS boards.....but they will come at a price. These, yet to be made digital amps will blow the industry wide open....as no more big heavy expensive boxes will ever need to be purchased......but what EAS has not is fantastic. When I do some mods to the Peachtree amp next month it should get a step or two better. Have fun!
http://tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/The_Audio_Revolution_has_begun.html
I have started a webpage about all this and more and will be updating it continuously.
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@ricevs Are you a vendor? You sound like a vendor? |
@ricevs For me, the review I posted above said it all. Yes he was impressed with the sound given the price point of the amp. But the final word was it doesn’t produce the sound of amps costing 5 or 10 times as much. If $3000 is your budget for an amp, then the Class D is a viable option. But....... it's not the be all and end all to amplificatioin. Glad you are so happy with your equipment. Now time to let other be happy with theirs? Cheers. |
@asctim Season's Greeting. I have reinvented my system about 3 times in as many years. Thank you Covid lockdowns. I have come to the realization that it's time to stop the insanity. I'm embarrassed by the amount of money I have sunk into this "hobby" and feel it is now time to say DONE. Well, this spring anyway when the final components arrive. Prior to this, I went 20 years with the same rig and never had cause to complain. Now I'm thinking about downsizing into my final house, one that will give me a 20' x 40' entertainment room. Wait, didn't I just say it's time to stop the insanity. 🤣 |
@asctim Don't shoot the messenger. I just thought it was a thoughtful review. According to the OP, the amp in the review is not even the tech he's on about. Guess it's all above my paygrade. As it happens, I've made my bed with my end game system and I'm not about to toss it all and start over at this point. Frankly, when the music sounds as good as it does on my old outdated tech, I just don't think I could appriciate any improvment. Miles Davis is already standing in my room playing just for me. What could this new tech do. Have him standing a little closer to me? 🤣 |
@yyzsantabarbara If by the comment "I would take the GAN1 gear over the Boulder"..... it means that you, like myself, have as much chance of ever being abel to own a pair of Boulder 3050 Monos as say, a UFO landing in Times Square, being piloted by Elvis, then I would say fair game. But on the other hand, if you are suggesting that being offered either gear free of charge, you would simply choose to own the GaN1, then I have to say that's just plain silly. 🤣 |