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<strong>Montréal, Québec, Canada—December 10, 2013</strong>—Classé has announced the availability of a new Delta series class D stereo amplifier, the 200wpc <strong>CA-D200</strong>, boasting proprietary Classé-designed switch mode power supply and switching amplifier stages. The Delta CA-D200 is the first class D amplifier to carry the Classé imprimatur.</p>
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“Processing and amplification—that’s what we do.” said Dave Nauber, President of Classé. “And the CA-D200 employs sophisticated processing and amplification technologies to deliver on the elusive promise of class D designs. It is the product of a design team with over 50 years’ combined experience in switching technologies.”</p>
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Classé says that DSP is used to optimize the performance of the system, lowering the dead-band-time—the gap produced when the plus and minus halves of the* switching amplifier’s output stage are both off, and considered the Achilles heel of earlier class D designs—to a vanishingly low 3 nanoseconds or less.* This in turn reduces distortion and noise to an unprecedented degree, thereby enabling minimal use of overall negative feedback, which is said to further improve the amplifier’s sonic performance.</p>
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“Audiophiles sometimes prefer the sound of tube amplifiers, citing musical qualities that can’t be quantified in measurements,” says Nauber, “but on balance and for a variety of reasons, most of us choose solid state amplifiers. But like an excellent tube amplifier, the CA-D200 has something special going on musically speaking that defies quantification, yet it retains the benefits associated with solid state amplifiers. Most likely it’s a combination of its many innovative design features, but there is an engaging musical quality with this amplifier that is not completely explained by the standard measurements.”</p>
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According to Classé, Class D amplifiers are known to have certain desirable characteristics such as cool, efficient operation, a comparatively small chassis size and lower price for a given power output. The CA-D200 offers all of these attributes, but surpasses other class D designs by adding superbly musical sound quality.</p>
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<strong>The Delta CA-D200 is available in December and retails for $4,000 USD.</strong></p>
[Source: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/classe-debuts-class-d/]
<strong>Montréal, Québec, Canada—December 10, 2013</strong>—Classé has announced the availability of a new Delta series class D stereo amplifier, the 200wpc <strong>CA-D200</strong>, boasting proprietary Classé-designed switch mode power supply and switching amplifier stages. The Delta CA-D200 is the first class D amplifier to carry the Classé imprimatur.</p>
<p>
“Processing and amplification—that’s what we do.” said Dave Nauber, President of Classé. “And the CA-D200 employs sophisticated processing and amplification technologies to deliver on the elusive promise of class D designs. It is the product of a design team with over 50 years’ combined experience in switching technologies.”</p>
<p>
Classé says that DSP is used to optimize the performance of the system, lowering the dead-band-time—the gap produced when the plus and minus halves of the* switching amplifier’s output stage are both off, and considered the Achilles heel of earlier class D designs—to a vanishingly low 3 nanoseconds or less.* This in turn reduces distortion and noise to an unprecedented degree, thereby enabling minimal use of overall negative feedback, which is said to further improve the amplifier’s sonic performance.</p>
<p>
“Audiophiles sometimes prefer the sound of tube amplifiers, citing musical qualities that can’t be quantified in measurements,” says Nauber, “but on balance and for a variety of reasons, most of us choose solid state amplifiers. But like an excellent tube amplifier, the CA-D200 has something special going on musically speaking that defies quantification, yet it retains the benefits associated with solid state amplifiers. Most likely it’s a combination of its many innovative design features, but there is an engaging musical quality with this amplifier that is not completely explained by the standard measurements.”</p>
<p>
According to Classé, Class D amplifiers are known to have certain desirable characteristics such as cool, efficient operation, a comparatively small chassis size and lower price for a given power output. The CA-D200 offers all of these attributes, but surpasses other class D designs by adding superbly musical sound quality.</p>
<p>
<strong>The Delta CA-D200 is available in December and retails for $4,000 USD.</strong></p>
[Source: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/classe-debuts-class-d/]