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.
@jerryg123 No I haven't. I know snake oil when I see it. More importantly, nor has anyone else auditioned any of this unless they have done it blind. What would be good is snake oil salesmen setting up blind auditions of their oil, taking the auditions themselves and inviting us in as well. The fact they don't do it evidences that they know this won't sell the product and that, in any case, there are enough believers around to keep them in business. Ho hum. |
@audioguy85 So freakin true. That's the problem with this hobby. People are always trusting someone else's ears. Some stuff I've heard that was supposed to be "exalted" made me wonder if the previous people who had heard, had ears. |
Glad to see some here aren’t fooled by more blatant, self serving advertisements. You would think by now the moderators would have put an end to this commercialization in a non-commercial forum. Sad. I would encourage people to report his self serving commercial appeals to the mods on a regular basis to flush this forum of people profiteering. |
@audioguy85 So freakin true. That's the problem with this hobby. People are always trusting someone else's ears. Some stuff I've heard that was supposed to be "exalted" made me wonder if the previous people who had heard, had ears. |
