D-SONIC SOA Class-D Core Amps. The best Class-D ?


Owner/Designer Dean Deacon of D-Sonic in Houston in recent months dropped using the B&O ICE amps which he now only uses in the surround channels of his multi-channel home theater amps. He now uses a new Class-D amp in all of his Magnum2 mono and two channel amps which he states is the most technically advanced Class-D amp on the market, called the SOA Class-D core amps. The recent review in 6Moons of his new M2-1500M amp concludes its the closest that Class-D has ever come to tube amps in the upper mid-range and high frequencies.
Anyone bought or heard recently the D-Sonic M2-1500M or the M2-600M? What are your opinions?
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I received a pair of the 600s yesterday.
Hope I didn't pull the trigger too soon.
From what I am hearing so far makes me wonder just how much better they could be. I know I have a long wait for them to break in, but they certainly are better then anything I have ever had in my system.
Hi Tan, tell us about the rest of your system, including cabling, and what amps the D-Sonics are replacing... .... What music are you listening to... How is the sound different from the old amps?

G.
Thanks for your interest.
My digital front end is made up of a North Star dac. with a matching transport. They are connected with a special made silver I2S cable. My analog front end is an Origin Live table and arm with Shelter cartridge.My Phonostage is a P S Audio.
My pre is the Wyred 4 Sound STP SE. All are connected with Condure balanced interconnects. The speakers are Danish made Dantax Albatross 8. Each have front and rear firing Scanspeak tweeters, a 6.5"Seas mid & two 8.5 Seas woofers The speaker cables are Clear Day Double Shotgun.
My first system was a pair of Dynaco St70 that I built mated with a pair of Snell C speakers. That was about thirty years ago. Even today my buddies tell me that was the best sound I ever had in my home.I have gone through many system changes since then. Macintosh,Classe,Spectral are just a few of the amps I have used.A few years ago I jumped on the Class 'D' train. I started with a pair of Bel Canto 300Ms. I moved on to a pair of Ref500Ms. I liked what I was hearing, but something was missing.They had a good low end and a nice top end, but somehow seemed disconnected. The first thing I noticed with the D-Sonic was how how balanced they were from top to bottom.As far the soundstage I feel like I am sitting in a huge bubble of sound. They do sound a little dry right now. but they are playing 24/7 with cable radio to break in.
Thank you Tan, please keep us posted as the sound of your D-Sonic amps evolves...

... Meantime Tim, what's new with your quest?

G.
Tan, good luck with your new amps. I have had my M2-600 pair for a year and a half and I have not yet finished digging all the best sound possible from my system since they replaced an aging pair of Atma-Spheres that died together when an errant power regenerator went crazy. As I have written earlier in this thread, the break-in period is quite lengthy, although the amps show signs of excellence along the way. They are very revealing of problems with component and EMI/RF interference, cartridge setup, cabling, poor recordings, room tuning, etc. and drove me to make more than fifty significant changes in my system since new. They really came into their own when I discovered how much they like heavy brass footers and maple platforms. Most recently, I acquired a used W4S STP preamp and I am astonished at the synergy between them. I currently have my amps plugged directly into their own dedicated Maestro outlets through HCF Top Gun PCs and connected to the STP through heavily shielded Sonoran Plateau balanced interconnects. The STP is powered from a PS Audio Premier using a PS Audio SC Premier cord. All components use Eden Sound Bear Paws or Terra Stones on individual maple platforms suspended on iso-blocks. Care may need to be taken in physical placement of the amps as proximity to some components may result in stray radio programs mucking up the noise floor (a Thor phono stage needed to be relocated in my system).

It seems to me that the more I do elsewhere in my system has caused the D-Sonics to continue to rise to the challenge of making better sounding music. After this much time, The only bone I have to pick with the amps is that they made me work too hard on bringing the rest of my system up to minimum audiophile standards in order to get the best from them.