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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8522863" data-attributes="member: 614752">I don&#039;t know how &quot;new&quot; these really are either.&nbsp; A lot of small footprint class D full range has been coming out of the far east lately.&nbsp; Adding a more versatile pre-amp section and more output devices for more power is pretty much what&#039;s been happening with the Korean/Chinese mono blocks.In short, I&#039;m sure they&#039;re nice but I do not think DD has engineers on payroll who create these and test prototypes.&nbsp; They&#039;re calling Korea and saying &quot;we want that small class D but double the power and a few more crossover options&quot;.Arc and Alpine had super small footprint class D full range 10 years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d suggest that what&#039;s coming out of the far east now is very probably based on the R&amp;amp;D that those trailblazers took the risk and paid some big bucks to create.&nbsp; &nbsp; Of course I&#039;m not lumping in Kicker with this since they haven&#039;t really hit a home run in a long time, but companies with their own engineers doing their own designs are the ones pushing the industry forward and you&#039;ve got to figure for every great breakthrough we get there&#039;s a lot of vanilla created and a lot of things that **** up a lot of resources and for whatever reason never make it to market.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8522863, member: 614752"] I don't know how "new" these really are either. A lot of small footprint class D full range has been coming out of the far east lately. Adding a more versatile pre-amp section and more output devices for more power is pretty much what's been happening with the Korean/Chinese mono blocks. In short, I'm sure they're nice but I do not think DD has engineers on payroll who create these and test prototypes. They're calling Korea and saying "we want that small class D but double the power and a few more crossover options". Arc and Alpine had super small footprint class D full range 10 years ago. I'd suggest that what's coming out of the far east now is very probably based on the R&D that those trailblazers took the risk and paid some big bucks to create. Of course I'm not lumping in Kicker with this since they haven't really hit a home run in a long time, but companies with their own engineers doing their own designs are the ones pushing the industry forward and you've got to figure for every great breakthrough we get there's a lot of vanilla created and a lot of things that **** up a lot of resources and for whatever reason never make it to market. [/QUOTE]

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