Originally Posted by
AD Audio
I tried my Nord Class D One Up amp with Westlower's 12ins Tannoys and we all thought it was rather good. IMO it sounded 'better' at the top and bottom of the frequency range than a Radford STA25. However, the same amp sounds much less impressive with my Tannoy Canterburys......so even Class D with its promise of extreme flexibility is system /speaker dependent. Interestingly, the Nord is rated at 700watts into 4ohms but in practice sounds no louder than my 50 watt 845 mono blocks........
David
Class D has no headroom vs a Class A or A/B. Your 50W 845 will sound louder than a typical 50W solidstate amp. 700 Class D watts sound like a lot (it is) but they are probably more equivalent to nearer 300W vs a typical solidstate amp. That's my take on FWIW.
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