Marantz introduced a new Integrated and SACD Player/Network player today

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On 9/4/2020 at 5:35 AM, AudioDoctor said:

The Integrated is using the Hypex Ncore class D amplifiers

I think you’re wrong here. They use their old design HDAM amps (Latest version) with SMPS.

https://www.marantz.com/-/media/files/document-master/marantzeu_product_documents/uk/marantz_model_30_info_sheet_eu.pdf

Not even sure this can be called class D

 

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3 hours ago, GUTB said:

Class D is useless trash.

Yes, Ice modules. Not so with Ncore. At least not my Hypex NC1200 into Theta Prometheus mono blocks. 
I hope one day Chris will be able to listen to them. I know he’s skeptical about class D. 
 

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12 minutes ago, sandyk said:

Many who have asked for this area would have been thinking more along the lines of Vinyl ,and analogue Tape Decks for example

Take one min and read second line in header of the forum 😀

 

For sure class D amps qualifies. 

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@sandyk

 

Did you read the front page as requested ?

 

Amps have analog signal in and out, including class D. 

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2 hours ago, Miska said:

have aliasing effects down to audio band

Well, won’t using HQPlayer helping avoiding that ?

I would also expect anti aliasing filters would be applied in most DAC’s. Or you add then on input of the amplifier. So I don’t expect this to be an issue today. Manufacturers must be aware of this. 
 

Still I’m not sure I understand why a Hypex vs a class A amplifier should act differently on input signal. But I probably won’t understand the answer either 😀