verdict on class D amps?

There is a dealer and Apogee speaker restorer extraordinaire near me who has
been courted by Bel Canto, and Spectron. He ran both of their most up to date
amps for long enough to come to the hasty opinion all class D amps must be
poor sounding.

I changed that. I took my entire system, including the speakers, to his place. His
verdict? - the two afformentioned amps, "Do not hold a candle to your
H2O amps."

I can't really blame Bel Canto or Spectron for their bad presentation. Like I said, I
took my whole system. There are those of us who have been experimenting with
ICE amps for years. I have learned a lot in that time. Taking my system showed
the H2O in it's best light.

ISanchez, my preamp is the H2O Fire preamp. This is a most unique class A solid state preamp, in that it gets intolerably hot. It takes two hours of warm up to sound it's best which is ironically nothing.

With class D amps I have discovered less is more when it comes to ICs and SCs. My interconnects are very cheap but unusually designed and sound great. The SCs are home made. I turn my monos around, and push them to the back of the speakers. That enables me to connect the amp to the speakers using very short, and thin copper ribbons.