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I know DEAD HORSE.. but if you feel like it,.. Help me with Class A/B vs Class D.
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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8220941" data-attributes="member: 655960"><p>First of all... no offense taken. Second, what are you disagreeing with? Everything I said? With the claim that technology has improved? Something else?</p><p></p><p>I agree with you that there's a difference between a $1K theater and a $20K theater. I used to sell &amp; install the latter back when home theater was new and a cheap DVD player would set you back $600.00. Parasound was my flagship line and I paired that with Denon, Jamo loudspeakers, OMB projectors and signal cabling from XLO Electric.</p><p></p><p>I'd still put my $2500.00 HCA-1206 up against anything McIntosh, Adcom or Krell makes. But then, it was designed by John Curl, the same guy who designed the old Mark Levinson amps that still today fetch more than Parasound's Curl designed amplifiers. And I've listened to a Parasound 2 channel amp side by side with one of the Curl designed MLs and there is no difference in clarity, timbre, sibilant control or any of the other cool sounding audio reviewer adjectives. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>There's also another thing to consider in the world of audio and that's the listening area. How is it prepared for audio? Well, the likelihood is that the $1K listening room isn't as acoustically dead as the $20K listening room. After all, there isn't much money left after equipment to go toward sound deadening in the former. Not to mention that the person with a $1K budget obviously isn't going to be as mindful of those things as the buyer of a $20K setup.</p><p></p><p>But in the end, the context of my post here was the difference between class AB &amp; class D amplifiers in car audio. And my point is that between a $200.00 class D amp and a $500.00 class AB amp, any audible differences in sound quality will surely be lost in the absence of proper staging, deadening, processing, et al.</p><p></p><p>But then there are still those who insist that vinyl records sound better than digital recordings. Even in the face of empirical evidence proving that vinyl has a much narrower bandwidth than digital. Not to mention the inherent noise produced by dragging a hard, pointed surface through a jagged ditch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8220941, member: 655960"] First of all... no offense taken. Second, what are you disagreeing with? Everything I said? With the claim that technology has improved? Something else? I agree with you that there's a difference between a $1K theater and a $20K theater. I used to sell & install the latter back when home theater was new and a cheap DVD player would set you back $600.00. Parasound was my flagship line and I paired that with Denon, Jamo loudspeakers, OMB projectors and signal cabling from XLO Electric. I'd still put my $2500.00 HCA-1206 up against anything McIntosh, Adcom or Krell makes. But then, it was designed by John Curl, the same guy who designed the old Mark Levinson amps that still today fetch more than Parasound's Curl designed amplifiers. And I've listened to a Parasound 2 channel amp side by side with one of the Curl designed MLs and there is no difference in clarity, timbre, sibilant control or any of the other cool sounding audio reviewer adjectives. :-) There's also another thing to consider in the world of audio and that's the listening area. How is it prepared for audio? Well, the likelihood is that the $1K listening room isn't as acoustically dead as the $20K listening room. After all, there isn't much money left after equipment to go toward sound deadening in the former. Not to mention that the person with a $1K budget obviously isn't going to be as mindful of those things as the buyer of a $20K setup. But in the end, the context of my post here was the difference between class AB & class D amplifiers in car audio. And my point is that between a $200.00 class D amp and a $500.00 class AB amp, any audible differences in sound quality will surely be lost in the absence of proper staging, deadening, processing, et al. But then there are still those who insist that vinyl records sound better than digital recordings. Even in the face of empirical evidence proving that vinyl has a much narrower bandwidth than digital. Not to mention the inherent noise produced by dragging a hard, pointed surface through a jagged ditch. [/QUOTE]
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