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Tyson: I think you may be making a gross oversimplification when you suggest that feedback is responsible for a certain type of amplifier "sound", especially when comparing class D to more traditional A or A/B designs. Feedback means different things to different people. Do you mean global feedback? Or local feedback around a single gain stage? Or perhaps the local feedback around a single amplification device (be it tube or transistor, all devices have local feedback)? And in terms of class D, feedback works in a very different way (at a magnitude higher speed) than it does in a traditional A or A/B amplifier.I love the sound of simple circuit, class A amplifiers with no global feedback (but, perhaps some feedback around individual stages), but I also love the sound of my Ncore amp after tuning it for my system.I think the thing is, when someone tests a new component, and drops it into a highly tuned system, it is silly to think things are going to gel right away without re-tuning the system to suit the new component. Example: someone has system featuring a relatively acidic sounding DAC, with loads of detail, neutral speakers, and a warm smooth amp like an old Pass Aleph 30. The system could sound great! But drop an Ncore amp into it and, whammo, the acidic sound of the DAC is revealed, but the Ncore is blamed when all along the very warm/smooth Aleph was balancing out the acid from the DAC...
So is all of this leading up to a road show?
Nope, just more hot air.
My Daddy always told me "don't knock it till you try it."So I did.
I agree,I did that when cherry first started,alot of components change in my system except Cherry amp and SP Tech speakers stay.