Nord One Up Ncore NC500 amps, Class D ready for prime time .....
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I wish I could go through Colin's website and fix all the typos and spelling mistakes... in the product section it states a 1 week lead time, under the specific amp it states a 2 week lead time. Are you reading this Colin? you shouldn't be right now because you should be building my amplifiers :snicker:
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Congratulations, I think
Give them a few hundred hours to break in before making any judgments.
Give them a few hundred hours to break in before making any judgments.
Thanks Joe. You are one of the ones to blame for me ordering a couple of one-ups. I don't know if I should thank you or not; give me another week or so
Congratulations, I think
Give them a few hundred hours to break in before making any judgments.
Of course. My DAC was god awful new out of the box; I picked it up last winter; it had been in a warehouse over the weekend when it was -15 on average, and was about 0 degrees when I plugged it in for the first time. What a huge difference even over the first 2 hours when it warmed up. (I know, I should have been worried about condensation issues, but too impatient
all is well) Took about 100 hours to really start to come into its own.He's right:
That's not the same data sheet as I've seen but I guess it's referring to the naked module with no additional cooling. This is a comparative measurement of RMS output into 8 Ohms for a number of different power amplifiers and it shows the NC500 is right up there at 400W:
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Reading above the amp produces the peak output power when the ambient temperature is 25 degrees C.
The amp already feels quite warm when operating: Anyone know what temperature the amp is when at idle?
On a hot day with no air con it must get well over 25 degrees C.
I have the stereo amp which must get even hotter than the mono.
The amp already feels quite warm when operating: Anyone know what temperature the amp is when at idle?
On a hot day with no air con it must get well over 25 degrees C.
I have the stereo amp which must get even hotter than the mono.
Well I see that NC500 is well over 100W, perhaps for sure is not 400W. So usually manufacturer declare conservative value for power, and I think Hypex do the same.
One thing very interesting I see from that graph, is that Benchmark AHB-2 has even lower distortion then NC500 up to 100W. So if we don't need for over 100W (depend on speaker and ambient) the Benchmark seem to be very good.
Don't you think ??
I also have the stereo Nord and it idles at a case temperature of 38 degrees C in my open frame rack unit.
At 400W the distortion reaches 1% so I wouldn't to run it up at that level.
Many would argue that at such low distortion levels they would be indistinguishable but the ultimate test would be a comparative audition?