Class D is still not as good in 2024?

True all, but seems like v3 monoblock is a very popular product..both measures well as well as sounds good as per ASR and reddit real life reviews.

Fosi v3 monoblock is the only class D that has been

And interestingly the fosi v3 monoblock next gen is reviewed well on ASR. Outstandingly well actually.
The v3 monoblocks are better thanks to feedback on the ASR on the earlier Fosi audio v3 stereo amp. I'm about to order the fosi za3 instead which doesn't measure as good as the v3 monoblocks, but has balanced inputs. If it turns out to be good i will buy one more and biwire my polk RtiA9 floorstanders. I already have constructed a speaker switch which can switch between two different amps and two different pairs of speakers. The ZA3 will allow me to put the amps just next to the speaker and I can run a long balanced cable from my DAC to the amps. I have two DACs with balanced output so this amp will allow me to utilize them.
 
The v3 monoblocks are better thanks to feedback on the ASR on the earlier Fosi audio v3 stereo amp. I'm about to order the fosi za3 instead which doesn't measure as good as the v3 monoblocks, but has balanced inputs. If it turns out to be good i will buy one more and biwire my polk RtiA9 floorstanders. I already have constructed a speaker switch which can switch between two different amps and two different pairs of speakers. The ZA3 will allow me to put the amps just next to the speaker and I can run a long balanced cable from my DAC to the amps. I have two DACs with balanced output so this amp will allow me to utilize them.
V3 monoblock also has balanced inputs XLR?
 
V3 monoblock also has balanced inputs XLR?
It does have, but

1. It is not available online in any store in India
2. It is few dollars more and I can't justify that cost for few extra sinad value, which my ears will anyway not able to hear it. To biamp, i will require 4 of the monoblocks. With za3 I require just two which will cost me just Rs 27k.
 
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Your DAC s must be expensive? I use topping d10s DAC...
The topping D10s is a good dac. I have it's balanced output equivalent D10b which is connected to my 20 band graphic equalizer, the output of which goes to a headphone amp feeding my HD650 headphone. The topping D10b drove me nuts making it work with mpd on my macbook and macmini. Ultimately I found that to be two cases of shoddy programming. One shoddy programming by Apple programmers and a shoddy programming by the Topping team which has an extra trailing blank space in the device name. I use mpd for all my music playback and this is the entry I had to make for mpd to make it work with D10b. The same issue is there for D10s, but it works on Linux where the ALSA driver ignores leading and trailing blank space in the ALSA hardware device name
audio_output {
type "osx"
name "Topping D10b"
device "D10b " # optional
mixer_type "disabled"
dop "yes"
}
I found this issue thanks to this post

If you are interested here is the linux code (Linus Torwards kernel tree) which uses the usb_audio_make_shortname() function to create a device name without the space. The call to strim() function at line 527 in the source code fixes this issue.


There are many such cases with real shady programming by apple. e.g. When you use samba, you cannot have @ in the password.

e.g. the following line mounts my Music drive on my macbook pro and mac mini. It uses the user pi with password pipinopi to access the share.
The host on which the share is present, is separated by the @ sign. So in this case 192.168.2.101 is the IP address on which the samba share lies

My /etc/auto_smb at the moment is like this
/System/Volumes/Data/MDrive -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://pi:[email protected]:/MDrive
My earlier password for the share was pi@@9435. so /etc/auto_smb was like this
/System/Volumes/Data/MDrive -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://pi : pi@@[email protected]:/MDrive
apple devices treats @[email protected] as the IP on which the samba share lies (the string after the first @ symbol) and naturally fails because this is not a valid IP address
Linux does it perfectly. It parses the IP address from backwards and correctly identifies the IP address as 192.168.2.101 even if the password has a @ symbol.

Unbelievable to see such shoddy programming from a billion dollar company
 
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It does have, but

1. It is not available online in any store in India
2. It is few dollars more and I can't justify that cost for few extra sinad value, which my ears will anyway not able to hear it. To biamp, i will require 4 of the monoblocks. With za3 I require just two which will cost me just Rs 27k.
V3 monoblocks will cost you 18 k per pair with the two 5amperes adaptor power supply. US friends can be asked
 
True all, but seems like v3 monoblock is a very popular product..both measures well as well as sounds good as per ASR and reddit real life reviews.

Fosi v3 monoblock is the only class D that has been

And interestingly the fosi v3 monoblock next gen is reviewed well on ASR. Outstandingly well actually.
So, sometimes objective measurements and subjective opinions on a product can both be good.
Wonder how often this happens statistically and how we feel about it 😎
 
Please see
The problem with these youtube reviews is they tout the specs rated by the manufacturers as gospel. None of these amps actually can do the full rated power of the TPA3255 chip. They don't have a good thermal design. The whole thing is in a cramped space. Most of these amps will simply burn and get fried if you use the amp to deliver the full power. Safer option is to use 36volts power supply.
 
I have a doubt: what if I use a linear power supply to a class D amp instead of a switching power supply. ? Will they still call it a class D or kind of hybrid amp?
 
I have a doubt: what if I use a linear power supply to a class D amp instead of a switching power supply. ? Will they still call it a class D or kind of hybrid amp?
Doesn't matter what power supply you use. It is still Class D.

Having tried many of these chinese amps, they are not a hifi solution. Anyone claiming these are the end all of hifi has ear wax. They are fine for the money but compared to a well designed, serious Class D amp like NAD master series, these are just junk.
 
Doesn't matter what power supply you use. It is still Class D.

Having tried many of these chinese amps, they are not a hifi solution. Anyone claiming these are the end all of hifi has ear wax. They are fine for the money but compared to a well designed, serious Class D amp like NAD master series, these are just junk.
Thank you. i am not considering chinese amps . i am planning to build an amp with hypex modules.
 
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