ICEpower Digital Switching Amps?

My goodness !

Ar_t is a guy I have known for a very long time. In fact, the image on his web site was photographed by me in my photo studio.

However, I cannot discuss how this amp performs, I have not listened to it. It might be fun and certainly possible since Pat and I live so near each other.

Ar_t...You said "The guys who are listening to 8 W SETs probably aren't going to be happy with them". Well, I read that many of those guys are all enthused about a little battery-powered TriPath-based digital amp that pumps out five mighty watts. Go figure.

Audiofankj

So are the pitfalls of a public forum. One might be talking one on one, but all can read. What I have been doing here is dueling with a respectable manufacturer on comparative amp topologies. I hate the idea I have to shut up when I am having so much fun.

Eldartford - you asked about why a large analog power supply might be beneficial, when a module is so efficient. An electronics engineer has explained it to me this way.

The module must be fed energy on demand. Digital switching is one way of going about it. By it's very nature, some noise is introduced into the signal. Some may argue the noise is insignificant. Others can clearly hear it.

An Analog power supply, that has substantial amounts of capacitance, acts as a relatively clean energy supply, that is always present. That energy can be drawn upon by the module without switching noise.

Another benefit of a high capacitor storage analog power supply is it absorbs the ripple effect caused my AC/DC rectification.

Vince, my apologies if you took it I or they were requesting anyone to "shut up"... it just becomes tiring when there is *any* digital amp post and you recite the same song over and over... even great songs get old with too much play...