I ate some darn delicious "southern" BBQ ribs tonight, with Baked Beans and Mac n' Cheese because of a cooking show I was watching... washed down with some IPA
How much power does it put out?@EricDH 10.000 posts back in this thread I mentioned that I had the opportunity to listen to the Class D Purify Eigentakt amp, but back then Covid-19 was the spoiler.
Designed by the father of Class D amps, Belgium inventor and former Philips NatLab employee, Bruno Putzeys.
Today I had the opportunity to listen in my own environment on my own Schitt (Yggdrasil A2 Unison™, Freya-S) and Quad ESL Plus to this amp and I was impressed.
No digital glare or rough edges to be determined anywhere. I can say it is 90% up to the Aegir.
Where it lacks (just a bit) is in wideness of the sound stage, instrument placement, attack (drums and the like) and something sounded a bit off in the bass. Can't really describe what that was with bass. It was like I missed some ground tones in piano and bass was less controlled (in lack of other words).
But all in all it was very positive and not at all what I expected. Much better than expected.
When you look at the price it is a steal. € 800,00 for the stereo evaluation board set
€ 220,00 for the (switched) power supply
and € 20,00 for a casing on Ali.
All cables are included, so it is complete plug and play for roughly € 1.000,00
Schiit Aegir mono blocks still outperforms it, but not by length. Class D has come a long way IMHO.
Now I'm even more anxious to hear Tyr when it becomes available.
Lovely day of listening to music and evaluating this amp.
That looks pro!Finally got my hands on some of that MakerBeam...made a little structure to hold a Loki Mini and a SYS, plus an RPi display mounted on top.
I’m curious about the new Linlai offerings. How would you say their E-6SN7 sounds in comparison to the Psvane CV181-TII?
27 dB amplification. Specced at 425 watt per channel @ max 1% distortion into 4 ohm. . Minimum load 2 ohm.
I find the Linlai to provide a slightly richer sound overall especially in the mids and maybe a little softer overall delivery but its a close call. And I hear the Linlai as a tiny bit quieter. I think Linlai calls for 100+ hours of play time to really settle down and I've got no where near that many hours on them at this point, and 2 of the four haven't been plugged in yet except to insure they were operational when I received them. I've got a lot of hours over the years on my Psvane CV181-TII. Plus the last few weeks I've been spending time with some solid state gear and summer is not usually peak listening season for me. One other thing to keep in mind, not all amps will reveal differences to the same degree when comparing tubes. I always use one or the other of my all tube (well except for the power supply) Incvbvs's as the final decision maker for myself. I find it a little easier to hear the contribution of the 6SN7 as a driver tube combined with a 5998 power output tube type as opposed to a hybrid. But that's just me.
When I first heard or Roon I thought it was way too expensive. But when they had a 3month deal on I finally gave it a shot. Now I don’t want to go without it…An aside:
Have I mentioned that Roon Radio ROCKS!
I could listen all day, but I have my first live concert in quite some time this evening - Chicago!
(Woohoo. Finally, some sense of normalcy!).
Grateful Dead seems to have gotten along quite nicelyI agree @Odin412.
Cream, CS&N, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, Eagles, The Police are just a few more examples.
It's probably harder to think of great bands who all got on really well . Big egos are involved.
