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• Same here but no pain - AbeCollins 19:52:22 02/04/25 (2)
  In Reply to: RE: I can feel your pain posted by Leo loves music on February 04, 2025 at 04:05:07

  I went from a pair of lovely sounding Manley Neo-Classic 250 tube amps, 10 EL34 tubes per monoblock. Wanting to no longer deal with the heat, weight, and tube replacement costs I investigated various Class D amps. I went through a few Class AB solid-state amps too but over time I noticed that Class D amps were improving. The other more 'traditional' amps had already plateaued. There was nothing new there except even more creative hyperbole in the marketing literature. Anyway, fast forward a handful of years and I too went

  tube -> class D, and with no regrets.

  Repairing and retubing the Manley Neo-Classic 250 monoblocks
  

  

  

  Tried a couple big boy Bryston amps. Big boy mistake.
  

  Manley tube monoblock & Wyred4Sound SX-500 Class D monoblock.
  
  The Wyred4Sound Class D was very good but not quite there. However, I'd take these Class D monoblocks any day over the
  Brystons. This was 14 years ago! Class D has improved noticeably since then. I'm sold.

  P.S. I was running Thiel speakers back then and they required big power to sound their best.
  
  
  
  

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  Edits: 02/04/25   02/04/25

  • Just perhaps, past pain in the wallet nt - cawson@onetel.com 03:23:09 02/05/25 (1)
    In Reply to: RE: Same here but no pain posted by AbeCollins on February 04, 2025 at 19:52:22

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    • We've all been there! - nt - AbeCollins 16:03:16 02/05/25 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Just perhaps, past pain in the wallet nt posted by cawson@onetel.com on February 05, 2025 at 03:23:09

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