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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8797915" data-attributes="member: 614752">DD still pretty well dominates the dB Drag leaderboard and Incriminator usually makes a showing.&nbsp;&nbsp; Deaf Bounce is an up and comer that sells some competition worthy equipment but it looks to be pretty much all catalog stuff from the Far East and since the company is European I think we pay a premium to get the stuff here in USA (see also:&nbsp; B2).Sundown has made big gains in market share all around and consistently sells a good product with solid customer service/warranty support.Full range class D has been a thing for many decades now and it is almost entirely past the point where you&#039;d take Richard Clark&#039;s money.... even the flea-market brands can buy full range class D out of a catalog from a Chinese buildhouse that&#039;ll sound fine.&nbsp; The exception being the recent line of &quot;full bridge&quot; amps coming out of China that everyone is selling (they&#039;re knockoffs of more established Brazilian designs).&nbsp; Some of those are still noisy but they&#039;re very inexpensive and sold under half a dozen brand names that will get a warranty sorted out without having to ship the thing to Brazil..... That all said if you&#039;re middle age and have been into loud music since your first pair of Jensen 6x9s on your Pyramid boosted EQ back when cute girls wore leg warmers and had huge hair you may or may not even hear the difference there.I&#039;d say the latest and greatest for full range class D would be the Zed designed Hertz and Audisson ones with built in DSP, though you could get to the same place with a lot of mid-priced offerings and outboard DSP from half a dozen different manufacturers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8797915, member: 614752"] DD still pretty well dominates the dB Drag leaderboard and Incriminator usually makes a showing. Deaf Bounce is an up and comer that sells some competition worthy equipment but it looks to be pretty much all catalog stuff from the Far East and since the company is European I think we pay a premium to get the stuff here in USA (see also: B2). Sundown has made big gains in market share all around and consistently sells a good product with solid customer service/warranty support. Full range class D has been a thing for many decades now and it is almost entirely past the point where you'd take Richard Clark's money.... even the flea-market brands can buy full range class D out of a catalog from a Chinese buildhouse that'll sound fine. The exception being the recent line of "full bridge" amps coming out of China that everyone is selling (they're knockoffs of more established Brazilian designs). Some of those are still noisy but they're very inexpensive and sold under half a dozen brand names that will get a warranty sorted out without having to ship the thing to Brazil..... That all said if you're middle age and have been into loud music since your first pair of Jensen 6x9s on your Pyramid boosted EQ back when cute girls wore leg warmers and had huge hair you may or may not even hear the difference there. I'd say the latest and greatest for full range class D would be the Zed designed Hertz and Audisson ones with built in DSP, though you could get to the same place with a lot of mid-priced offerings and outboard DSP from half a dozen different manufacturers. [/QUOTE]

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