That’s the definitive colour for Primare in my book. I love the two-tone personally.I generally like my HiFi black rather than silver, but those do look rather smart .
That’s the definitive colour for Primare in my book. I love the two-tone personally.I generally like my HiFi black rather than silver, but those do look rather smart .
After your previous (single) comment about the 3510, I thought I had missed a fuller explanation, so yes the comparison would be very interesting.
That looks good value.
When I read this, I thought I was reading one of my own posts as it exactly expressed my own situation 3 years ago. Then I was using valve amps (PX-25 and 845-based SETs) powering Avantgarde Unos.Atmasphere Class D monoblocks and AGD Audions GaNTube monoblocks.I’m a recent convert to the new breed of Class D amps. I’ve long been a valve amp fan with an Atmasphere OTL amp being my favourite. I‘ve recently retired and keeping a valve amp on all day was getting costly. My speakers are very efficient at 107db/W (Avantgarde Duo Omega horns) and also very revealing of any changes in the system.
Hi Peter,When I read this, I thought I was reading one of my own posts as it exactly expressed my own situation 3 years ago. Then I was using valve amps (PX-25 and 845-based SETs) powering Avantgarde Unos.
I too had recently retired and was curtailing my listening hours because of the valve amps. I decided to switch to ss if (and only if) I could find an equally good or better sounding a ss amp. I was looking at Class A, AB and D and home auditioned a dozen amps and was expecting one of the Class A ones to win my affection. However not so, although the Accuphase A-36 is a great amp, but a little too civilised and slightly lacking in impact. The dozen included the NAD M32 and I decided upon this great amp in the end, despite it being one of the least costly.
This was upgraded to M33 when it became available and the Unos upgraded to Duos (pre-Omega) and currently Duo XDs. I'd now like to try the M33 against the Atma-Sphere Class D monos and the ADG Audion monos to see if either offered better sound than the NAD.
Did you home demo these 3 amps with your Duos, or was the decision after research, reviews and showroom demos? I did my tests at home after buying used amps, one new one and the rest were dealer demo units. But all were tested against the 845 mono SETs and other ss amps I had at home at the time.
Are you UK based? I guess not as the other amps you mention are unlikely to be available here - not yet anyway! If you are, I'd like to invite you to visit, bringing your miniscule but lovely Audions and we could do a NAD vs AGD workout with Duo XDs!
Thanks. Peter
PS- Do you leave the Audions on 24/7 or switch them off? I'm sorry they don't have a trigger option so they could be powered up from the preamp.
Ok .. to get the emotion that is in the music you need an amp that can produce the dynamic range without distortion or clipping.it's all about the timbre and tonality of acoustic instruments. Not interested in "emotion" because any emotion is in the music itself. Not interested in soundstage because I listen from various different points in the room. Not interested in "bass slam" because I'm a double bass player and a double bass absolutely does not "slam" - that's an electronic artefact. All music has dynamics but I don't want exaggerated dynamics, just what's there already.
Installed 2x AUDIOPHONICS MPA-M250NC Power Amplifier Class D Mono NCore NC250MP today.
Well, I tend not to keep hifi things long.Installed 2x AUDIOPHONICS MPA-M250NC Power Amplifier Class D Mono NCore NC250MP today.
How are you getting on with your Hypex? I think I just opened Pandora's Power Amp .. not sure, really not sure. I do not get how PWM sampling at 500kHz is not considered digitisation. The bass/mid - control - dynamics are incredible. Top end not convinced on first few hours listening - soundstage and imaging too. Reminds me of CDs after listening to vinyl. Sorry first thoughts - just being honest. I do like how D is super small, light and efficient, and is the future. I was comparing to the power amp section of an MF M3i using same pre-amp stage.
Which Atma-sphere amps do/did you have and do you find the AGD Audions superior or merely "close" to the OTLs?Hi Peter,
I had a trial of the NAD M23 and found that to be very convincing. I would have trialled the Atmasphere Class D but there is no dealer in the UK. Ralph does offer a trial/teturn but I didn’t want the hassle of Customs duty etc if I did return the amps.
I bought the AGD Audions from Valhifi. Greg does offer home trials but his amps were out for review. So, after a fair amount of research, I decided to take a flyer and buy them.
Within the first song I knew I’d made the right decision! You might also want to take a look at the AGD Tempo di Gan stereo amp which does have trigger function.
I currently have a PS Audio BHK preamp which has two triode valves on the input so I don’t want to keep them powered on. I therefore also power down the Audions in case of any switch on thumps etc.
Could you point me to some of these US forum threads please? I have found the contrary - that most A-S Class D owners are thrilled to bits with them. So much so in fact, that I searched around and eventually found a pair (the only pair outside the US) on HiFi Shark. I bought them unheard and they are very good sounding amps.Regarding Ralph's class D amps, I've read a number of US forum posts about excited OTL owners trying to like them over their OTL amps and failing. They always eventually found something was missing. Probably why I see quite a few on hifishark...
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/atma-sphere-class-d-amazing?page=6Could you point me to some of these US forum threads please? I have found the contrary - that most A-S Class D owners are thrilled to bits with them. So much so in fact, that I searched around and eventually found a pair (the only pair outside the US) on HiFi Shark. I bought them unheard and they are very good sounding amps.
Wheather they are actually better than the Purifi Eigentakt based NAD M33 is another matter. I can switch between the two amps and I'm hard pressed to find any difference in sound at all. They are both pretty great amps and I'd never go back to valves.
If anyone would like to hear these two amps and offer their expert opinion, I'd cordially invite you to do so. Peter