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| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load Hello George, Agreed. While there's currently no such thing as a class D input stage there is a company, Mola Mola, that offers a class D preamp and pair of class D mono-blocks that have output and input stages specifically designed to p... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene Hello davekayc, Congrats and welcome to the DBA Concept club! Even in your huge room, I don't think there's a need to go beyond 4 subs but, otoh, 6 subs is...… extremely cool. Each sub beyond 4 will not only marginally increase the perc... | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? Hello niodari, Yes, my goal is to stay in class D, too. I've tried to keep up with class D developments for years now and I've been thrilled with the performance of all the D amps I've purchased thus far. The downside of this is I'm constant... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load George: "Every amp I know of also has Class-A input stages, and "why suddenly is the Class-A linear the preferred way for the input", why not for the output as well???"Hello George, I don't think anyone's claiming a class A input stage isn't a... | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? Hello niodari, In retrospect, I’ve been so impressed with class D amps in general that I’ve consistently upgraded to better performing examples over the past 7 years or so. I began my class D journey with what I consider the budget king of D a... | |
| Need a new BD player, region free Hello jafreeman, Thanks for the congrats, it's well worth the extra $700 to me. All the current hi-end players I was considering and researching were missing one or more of the Oppo's features, such as analog surround outputs for up to 7.1 su... | |
| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? Hello yysantabarbara, Funny, I was at Audio Solutions here in Indy last Saturday with a friend listening to and comparing a used pair of blue Magico A3s and a used pair of Sonus Faber Stradivari, both in excellent condition. My friend own... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load It's apparent that georgehifi has appointed himself the official judge on this thread who administers the amp typology scales of justice with a big, heavy thumb on a particular scale and applies amp typology justice and fairness in the manner... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load Just got done talking with Merrill of Merrill Audio. He says a lot of his customers are trading in their $12K Veritas mono-blocks on his new line of Element amps with GaN FETs. He said the older GaNs sound better than the newest ones, intere... | |
| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? Update: I’ve realized that I’m currently going through one of those stages, that I believe most of us go through periodically, during which even though our systems are performing very well we, nevertheless, get the urge to shake things up a bi... | |
| Need a new BD player, region free I found and bought an Oppo 205 4K Universal player, region free, but I had to pay a premium at a total shipped price of $2,100 from the HiFi Boutique in Orlando, Fla. It's scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Weird, I still feel lucky since it ... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene haywood310:"The "Earl Geddes" effect done right is just SPOOKY! It takes all of your rooms weakness’s and makes them work against each other push/pull, Yeng Yang, Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. Good bass is not just about pounding AC/... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene Hello cal3713, Thanks for the tip on sorting. Fortunately, it looks like today everything's back in normal order. Maybe it was just an IT issue that they fixed. I'm glad you got your Coincident sub cabinets working and integrated well wi... | |
| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? In researching the LA4, I’ve read many reviews pairing it or the HPA4 (which really is just an LA4 line stage preamp with a headphone amp) with the very low noise, distortion and neutral Benchmark ABH2 stereo amp that describes very good neutral ... | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? Hello turnbowm, While it is true that class D amps in general emit radio frequency (RF) energy that can interfere with AM/FM frequency reception, class D amp designers are very well aware of this issue and typically make containing, controllin... |