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Well until I hear them for myself, there's not much I can comment on. Richards circuit design worked great for me. However I used different resistors, caps and board layout. I thought the help I...

So what did Colin say? He must have said something about them. I can't see why he can't ship you the Hypex designed OEM boards to try. They are the exact same circuit that is used on the NC1200's.

Anyone who's mission is to make peace gets shot. JFK, MLK, John Lennon, etc. It's called the human condition.

That's why I think there's something wrong. Until they are tested, you'll never know. Everyone else has had a completely different experience.

I came up the the concept, not the circuit design. As I have explained in detail, once I finally tested them, I wasn't impressed. They weren't like the boards I built.

It's all based on personal taste. Put a $3 LM4562 in the socket if you want. I personally prefer Class A discrete designs.

What input boards did you order with yours?

Keep in mind that Joe has the old boards that have been revised since. I will be the first to say they are mediocre at best

No I will measure them and see if there's any flaws with the boards.

That isn't true. I'm working on projects guys like you will be raving about one day. So I'm not sure why anyone would be upset about that.

Because we didn't have it until the Ncore's were combined with a SOTA input buffer.

Read the Munich thread on here. 2nd best, not the best. The best went to another amp using SMPS's.

Unless Marty is going to have an apx-555 on hand, it's better for Marty to send his to me instead.

It was pretty easy for Taiko at the DSD 512 fest. It got voted both best at show, or 2nd best by many.

And class D may not be new technology, but good class D is :)

Probably because most didn't realize that the sound that was so good was coming from class D :)

Yes at 1/4 the price, they are great value.

Funny the Job wasn't used in the Sound Galleries DSD 512 fest in Munich.

The problem with being there and done that is it doesn't give you experience with what you haven't tried yet. I have no problem with tubes and analog, all I have been trying to get across is equal or...

Who said best in the world? I don't recall saying this.

Like for the reasons Randy mentioned, Wyred 4 sound built them for him. However if you prefer Icepower, I sent a link to a $375 amp using the same modules. And you also get a DSP engine thrown in for...

You are forgetting who started this thread. Are you saying Joe has no experience as well? How about Elberoth who said the NC-500's were the 2nd best sound at Munich? You seem to be attaching proven...

Bel Canto used the Icepower modules for years. But now they switched to 100% Hypex. Their NC-500 based amp the Ref600m are $5000. That's the price point that NC-500 based amps should be at using...

Are you sure you're not talking about Hypex UCD and not Ncore? Because if it's Ncore, one of the technical reasons is likely 4x the cost.

Once you have experience with a good NC-500 based amp, come back again. For now the fact that one was in a system that was 2nd best sound in a the world biggest audio show with million dollar rigs,...

I have a client with those and he loves them. I think they would be very hard to beat for a 2 way floor stander.