Excerpt from an article titled:
Today’s Disruptive Class-D Amps Are Changing the Audiophile Hobby Very Much For The Better
“Will Traditionalist Audiophiles Fight Modern Change in the Amplifier Category?
The audiophile hobby isn’t much about embracing the future over its two generations in existence. The print magazines that have shaped the hobby for 50 years and counting put a big premium on a high price, exotic technologies, and exclusivity. These new Class-D amps are better than that, thus they represent the type of Silicon Valley “disruptive” change in technology that points many traditionalists to vinyl and tubes over more modern, more efficient audiophile electronics options.
The next-generation audiophile is seeking performance and value, as every other enthusiast has in his or her journey over the years. The fastest way to get to an increasingly high-performance stereo system is to embrace, engage or at least understand what is possible with these types of new technologies. Do you have to own a Gallium Nitride, Pascal or Hypex chipped amp to be a new-school audiophile? Of course not, but you should know about them as they represent the types of technological advances that really can improve performance of real-world, high-end audiophile systems, while saving power and delivering excellent value. “
Today's Class-D amps be it Gallium Nitride, Hypex or Pascal chipped are changing the value proposition of what it takes to power speakers
futureaudiophile.com
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