The X-amp

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Steven and Stuwee you will receive your things tomorrow. So stuwee if you need puter parts let me know. I think you may like this little amp.

Larry
 
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speakerman1 said:
Steven and Stuwee you will receive your things tomorrow. So stuwee if you need puter parts let me know. I think you may like this little amp.

Larry
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:mrgreen: can't hardly wait :mrgreen: My dull life needs a pick me up! As to the 'puter parts, I'll be sure to let you know, thanks bud! I don't care what these other HooHa's say about ya, your just tit's ta me :faroah:

I'm really looking forward to this X-amp, I got the acid test music all lined up, Lp's lining the walls, some really nice Cd's and of course cassette's and a fedw RtR's, very exciting down here in the desert!!
 
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Well, I got the amp and my way cool t-shirt Tuesday afternoon :cheers: . I must have picked up a flu bug here at the library, been sick as a dog :sad4: :sad3: these last few days. I'll hook it up tomorrow morning!!
 
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stuwee said:
Well, I got the amp and my way cool t-shirt Tuesday afternoon :cheers: . I must have picked up a flu bug here at the library, been sick as a dog :sad4: :sad3: these last few days. I'll hook it up tomorrow morning!!
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I feel for you buddy. I have something. Last week was bad. This week it is off again and on again. Feel good one day and sick the next.

Larry
 
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Thanks Larry, I know I felt like a Mack truck hit me, no sense trying to listen critically with a stuffed up head. Fingers crossed I'm better soon.

I can't believe how small and light it is, it's been a while since I picked up an amp with one hand :lol:
 
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stuwee said:
Thanks Larry, I know I felt like a Mack truck hit me, no sense trying to listen critically with a stuffed up head. Fingers crossed I'm better soon.

I can't believe how small and light it is, it's been a while since I picked up an amp with one hand :lol:
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Don't know if I've ever owned like that, doubt if i ever will!!!!!! Thats almost blasphemy!!!!
 
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What ever happened to the X-amps? Didn't Larry buy a whole pallet of them at one time? Maybe they are in Lee's storage shed waiting mods? :D
 
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Seems like they weren't that much to speak of as they ended up in Lee's shed and a google search leads to a recording guitar amp?
 
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As I recall, early class D amps were pretty crap-tastic. Everyone says they've gotten better, but I'm not buying it. Don't know why, but I'm not buying.

Edit: just realized my one experience with a class D amp was in a Definitive Technologies sub that died about three years in - just past the warranty. The dealer - my local guy - had another of the same model and just dropped the amp board from that one in mine and sent the dead one back to Definitive Tech. Amp number 2 was still working when I sold it to my co-driver for his home system after we moved over to the small house.
 
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Bob Boyer said:
As I recall, early class D amps were pretty crap-tastic. Everyone says they've gotten better, but I'm not buying it. Don't know why, but I'm not buying.
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I demo'd extensively a McIntosh Class-D amp in a treated room environment and I found the sound too clinical or sterile sounding. But it did sound WAY better than I was biased to think, going in. Had plenty of oomph but not leaning warm - like I prefer. That said, D amplification has come a long way and every sound bar I've tested & owned do everything well with Class D. The SVS sub I just picked up is D and considering it's narrow purpose, I'm eager to see how it blends in. The DSP tone shaping stuff might make it a winner. If I can't make it sound like it's disappearing into the system and indistinguishable from the rest of the range coming out of my Martin Logan's - it's going back!
 
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Ive definitely heard good Class D. Especially a high damping factor style Crown especially and directly connected to the low frequency drivers. Hard to beat down low. Recently took part in a traveling amp thing from a cool manufacturer and that amp really sounded nice top to bottom. Just not WOPL level........
 
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My experience with Class D amps has been good. That Crown at work (8 x 75 WPC) is class D and sounds great, The Wally World "Dual" amp in my truck (100 wpc) is class D and seems decent, and the lil Dayton amp in my homemade bluetooth speaker is also great......for a bluetooth speaker (It reveals the artifacts of the lossy compression that Spotify uses)
 
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laatsch55 said:
A 120 watt into 4 ohms D amp with an undersized transformer....mono blocs..
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I thought some of them were stereo amps or maybe my memory went on the fritz. Did they have a poor power supply, I thought they had an over sensitive gain and hard to control?
 
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