D-SONIC SOA Class-D Core Amps. The best Class-D ?


Owner/Designer Dean Deacon of D-Sonic in Houston in recent months dropped using the B&O ICE amps which he now only uses in the surround channels of his multi-channel home theater amps. He now uses a new Class-D amp in all of his Magnum2 mono and two channel amps which he states is the most technically advanced Class-D amp on the market, called the SOA Class-D core amps. The recent review in 6Moons of his new M2-1500M amp concludes its the closest that Class-D has ever come to tube amps in the upper mid-range and high frequencies.
Anyone bought or heard recently the D-Sonic M2-1500M or the M2-600M? What are your opinions?
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Now that i am approaching a full year with these amps, I have to say that they are extremely responsive to improvements in their own setup as well as upstream in the system. I thought they were really good when I first got them, but they continue to surprise and delight as i have made more than 60 changes to my gear since, mostly in component support. Mine are currently powered by Synergistics Research X2 active master couplers. I get the best results to date using a highly shielded balanced Sonoma Plateau copper cable for the signal. output is through a 4' biwire set of Poeima ii silver ribbons. I have upgraded the connectors on my speakers to cardas CPBP posts that I want to also install on the amps. My amps sit on a pair of round-top granite end tables that I modified with carpet spikes and damping material. Each amp sits on Eden Sound triceratops bear paw brass footers resting on a 15"x2" round maple platform. These are decoupled from the granite top with Maplesade isolation blocks. The amps way only 10# each, with the combined weight of each table/platform/footers is about 35#. It took a lot of listening and experimentation to arrive at the current configuration, but the amps are so revealing that the effort was not overly frustrating.
Mcbuddah, thanks for posting. Very interesting. You have put a lot of effort in to this. I will try D- Sonic monos in May next year when I'm back from a long holiday in Asia. When you talk about Poeima 2, you mean Ridge Street Audio Poeima 2, right? If so, I use Poeima 3 ( speaker and XLR IC ). I'm in Sweden but it's a small world. Please, let us know more about your impressions about the amps. I understand you like them because you have put so much energy and made so many changes into your system.
I will share my findings about these amps, but it's a long time from now.
Cheers,
Mikko
Mcbuddah, I can't find info on the Sonoma Plateau IC you are using.
How much are they? Other IC you tried besides the Sonoma Plateaus?
Yeah, it's a year later, and no more info in this thread? No news?

One comment: To me, it's ridiculous to publish a spec like Rowland does about the frequency response of his amplifiers in the region that only bats can hear and then say it's down 3 dB? Is that supposed to be impressive? What is the frequency range where we can expect the output of his amplifiers to be essentially flat?
The finest and most powerful Class D amp on the planet are the Marten M-Amp mono blocks from Sweden. They weigh 100 lbs a piece and run cool. Costs is $45K a pair. These amps ain't for kiddies. The Marten's use Abletec switching amps

Um, would it be improper to point out that he obviously missed the design goals of Class D topology by the diameter of the solar system? What's the point of a class D amp that has all of the disadvantages of a class A/B design?