Recent content by Mr.Satyre

Dusting off my memory files... Class H is like a desktop PSU that does rail switching for different voltage needs. I think...

I'd stick with whatever they want to call it. Could be we're all missing something somewhere. Not as if Storm doesn't know what they're doing, but occasionally the marketing team and development team don't always see eye to eye.

Well, I'm not an engineer, so my technical understanding is fairly limited on how these things work. I believe to be a true digital amplifier, to start with it has no analog inputs or processing capabilities. Among others, NAD had a "direct digital amplifier" back in 2009. In his article NAD M2...

Wait. Sorry to nitpick, but a digital amplifier? With an ADC for the balanced analog inputs? Everything else seems to indicate a traditional (albeit streamlined) Class D PWM approach.

Anyone have insight to how they come up with update numbers? Usually anything that follows a decimal point would indicate a minor revision, but this seems to be a significantly advanced update to warrant it's own, like 5. Instead, this is 4.7r2. Revision 2 to 4.7? Does that make any sense?

I take that back. It was 2016. After I posted 2021 I kept thinking "That's not right." It was definitely before the PAC debacle. Here's it's debut at CES 2016.

2021...? There was an Onkyo version as well, and even an Onkyo dual-SIM phone version as well, which was supposed to hit US shores "soon", but of course never did.

I still have my Pioneer XDP-100R in my curiosity cabinet. Not on par with an A&K, but still pretty nifty for the time! Abysmal battery life, tho'. 😆

Definitely an attractive design! I have never managed to hear Triangle, tho'. 😕

I'm all for the 3D printed cabinets. 3D printing is evolving at an astonishing rate, and the types of cabinet materials available is expanding. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the drivers and crossovers will also be 3D printed some day.

Thanks for sharing. Very promising.

Suit yourself.

Feel free to reorganize it however you think it would be easiest to navigate.

In the beginning was ICE Power, and it was good. Then there was a period where Pioneer engineers independently redesigned the ICE modules and called the result D³ (why not D²? that was a marketing ploy) Anyway, I remember there being susprising confusion on the Onkyo side of things after they...