Listened to a couple different Class D amps last year from Rogue. I thought they were ok played thru Gallo and Dali speakers. I found both models a little bright. I actually enjoyed the CM3 more which is a tube integrated though not particularly tubish in presentation. I would be interested in hearing more D amps but until my ears signed off I would be loath to put down my money. I will say the Sphinx v3 sounded better than the original model I heard 5-6 years ago so the technology is moving in a positive direction. I did feel the tube preamp added some texture to the sound and maybe that is the way to look at this....
Competitive class D amp suggestions
I have been Class D fun since a few years ago when i bought my first class D amp. I like the concept, in general, and all the attractive features of this class of amplifiers. I tried 4 different ones, currently i stayed with one of them that i consider to be the best among all four amps. I do enjoy and like it. At the same time, my 5 watts SET amplifier (with more than 100 times higher distortion according to the specs) gives more natural and (surprisingly) notably cleaner sound (THD of the class D amp is 0.001). The soundstage of the class D amp is not so bad but that of the tube one is still better.
I remain attracted by class D amps though.
Any fresh suggestions on reasonably priced class D amps (i mean excluding non-reasonably priced class D amps, e.g., Merrill amplifiers)?
Any comments on non-reasonably priced class D amps are also welcome (so far i was not able to audition many class D amps and am curious if there are some which could really compete with Class A).
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@avanti1960 where did you hear the Rose RA180? Here is the US? I've been very happy with Class D for quite some time. Early Hypex (UcD, Ncore), more recently Purifi and now Class D Audio Mini GaN 5. Will be trying out the Peachtree 400 and their GaN1 in the near term. Lots of options...
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