Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other???

I can attest that the ClassDAudio amps are fantastic, I will be following their new amps with great interest.

I have owned/heard Hypex NC400, TI 3116/3118, ST TDA7498.

I know NC400 is highly rated. However, I prefer my Tripath TA2022 and TK2050 Topping amps to it. 

Tripath doesn’t measure like others but who cares. I like what I hear. That’s why I have ears for this hobby:) Fast, slow, distortion, this, that. I don’t care. 

As long as my system gives me the feeling of being there, I am good. So far Pass Labs Aleph 3 did that the best. Second Tripath. 

I want to hear a GaN amp with the higher switching frequency and a higher low pass filter. The manufacturer trying to confuse people with the "tube" doesn't pass.

The manufacturer trying to confuse people with the "tube" doesn't pass.

It's not really a tube, just the bottle of one with the GaN module stuffed into it. I think he regrets doing it as he did say,

"Company founder Alberto Guerra admitted that he did it largely for the sake of visual aesthetics. “Otherwise a class-D amp just looks like a box,” he said. The amp uses gallium nitride MOSFET output transistors, which Guerra says switch faster and allow the amp to have a noise floor in the -120 to -130dB range. Power is rated at 200W into 4 ohms."

Cheers George

     I agree the glass tube containing the GaN module is a bit goofy.

     But I think something like this on a class D amp, a convenient location where some type of plug-in is inserted to change the amp's sound characteristics using a variety of purchased opamps or dsp chips, might be kinda cool.  Like Nord but more convenient/accessable.
     Maybe they could offer 'Classic Tube Sound', 'Flea Watt SET Sound with SS Bass', 'Lamm Tube Amp', "McIntosh', 'Pass Labs SS Amp', etc.
     They could also have a class D preamp with these plug-ins so one could match various preamp qualities imparted to various amp sounds and tailor the sound just to their liking.
     I  think this type of technology could be feasible in the near future.

Tim