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THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE

The new Bel Canto mono blocks that just came out, called BLACK BY BEL CANTO, weighing in each at 45 pounds, may be the amp I mentioned in a thread two years ago that had bee delayed for release back in 2013. The mono amp that John was working on back in 2012 was a Class D amp with no switching module replaced by a very large DC power supply. Reading the info on the website, would conclude this is it. Its also using a Ncore power supply as well. The large main power supply John designed would account for the heavy 45 pounds each. These new mono amps are part of a new three piece system. The amps are $15K each. Go to the Bel Canto home page. Scroll down to the very bottom right and click black face plate option and this will open up the new pages for the Black system. Has anyone out there heard these amps?
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Many people still think that power supply has to be linear and
heavy to deliver great performance. In reality many designers
use large heavy transformers because of this belief - that
creates better sales (If it is heavy it has to be good). Look
at new class AB amplifiers from Jeff Rowland - all use 1MHz
SMPS and are very quiet. Black amplifier by Bel Canto claims
amazing 120dB of dynamic range. Do you think it is because of
heavy power supply? New Benchmark ABH2 - a class AB amplifier
achieved 130dB dynamic range using SMPS. Also their new DAC2
got 10dB quieter than DAC1 by using SMPS (multiple) instead of
linear power supply. From technical view point linear power
supply is a non-regulated noisy switcher.
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