Hey That's Not So Bad if It's Class D


 So I don't have an amp right now & was fiddling around in the kitchen with music playing from my Samsung big screen when I realized the sound coming from the living room wasn't too bad...Bass had good definition but no depth or impact,drums sound like drums but again no impact,I can tell Slow Hands Strat from BB's Gibson & Greg Allman 's latter years rasp comes through with just enough gravel......There's no low level detail but I attribute that to the internal speakers..
Epiphany!!! I am most likely listening to a modern Class D Amplifier in the Samsung...If it is indeed Class D color me impressed enough to explore  the tech further....
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noble100
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I know my class D monoblocks provide significantly better sound quality in my system and room than any of the good quality, big, heavy,inefficient and hot running class AB amps I previously used."

Actually Class AB amplifiers designed for music Reproduction Systems are quite efficient although not nearly as much as Class D but they also avoid the distortion, artifacts, and noise inherently embedded in Class D products and components and if you're Class AB amplifiers ran hot then they were misadjusted as to bias or they were improperly designed or they had insufficient heatsinking.