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http://www.devialet.com/index.php The french audio-révolution
Class D.
I wonder if its ICEPower..?
Beo4 'til I die!
No it sounds better than ICE power. It is a new patend hybrid technology.
Oh the Devialet has been around for a couple of years. I like that it is all in one though. I will much prefer a Direct digital amplifier/ power DAC than a PWM amplifier just because it is a much more elegant solution. The Devialet is very innovative in terms of having a traditional Class A 1 watt amplifier drive the voltage part and letting the class D do the heavy lifting in the current delivery. Didn't measure all that well in the Stereophile review as compared to the either NAD M2 power DAC or the NAD M51 direct digital DAC though despite costing a lot more than either of them. I wonder whether that is why Devialet is now dropped by the many demonstrators at this year's CES.
Actually Icepower had spoken about a direct digital amplifier like a decade ago. Whatever happened to that plan? It's true that direct digital amplifiers are not at all that efficient as compared with traditional switching amplifiers but they are definitely applicable for high end hifi. Direct digital amplifiers are basically digital signals upsampled very precisely to match the switching frequency of a switching amplifier like Icepower but without the whole process of D/A conversion and converted to PWM. Icepower is considered as cheap amplification now so.... why not create a upmarket division of Icepower?
I really hope B&O will one day make its foray into true high end hifi. High end all in one and not separates because that's where the whole hifi industry is heading to anyway. I think a 5-6 figure B&O loudspeaker is a more worthwhile investment than a 5-6 figure TV. Plus it is so much easier to upgrade HiFi than TV - Linn managed to offer costly upgrades to their reference active loudspeaker line with new drive units, crossover and power supplies.
On second thought it is actually quite impossible to upgrade TV.