Amp's upon amp's (Off Topic)

by soundcheck , Germany, Wednesday, March 07, 2007, 18:05 (6260 days ago) @ Bert

Hi folks.

Theoretically a D-Amp or T.Amp shouldn't sound better than a class A amplifier.
On one hand you've got the poor filter in the output and on the other hand you've got some kind of poor feedback involved.
Theoretically from technology perspective a Ucd should sound better than T-Amp. If you look at T-Amps over UcD, a T-Amp does not even have a differential input.

However:

I think the only advantage of a T-Amp over its competitors it is its fully integrated one-chip design. This for sure solves a lot of issues.
The possibility to run it from battery and of course that you run this
amp in a reasonable range on a high efficiancy system are some more pros.
A Ucd or Icepower will almost run idle at very low output voltages with our speakers. I wonder if that is a real benefit here, I doubt it.

And we are back again to my beloved thesis "everything" ends up in a compromise at a certain stage. You win at one end and you'll loose at another
end. In the end it is the whole "system" resp. chain which sounds best or not.

You can discuss this forever, without coming to a conclusion.

Perhaps you'll have a look at

www.newclassd.com.

I think this is the most sophisticated Class-D design available today.
(Lars Claussen is the former developer of LC-Audio)
It doesn't need very much of DIY skills to assemble the whole amp.
and it doesn't cost you 1900€.

Cheers
Klaus

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