i noticed something this morning

colemanyoungerinalaska · Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:45 am

i was messing around with some of my amps and i noticed that i really dont like the way class d amps sound. i ended up disconnecting all my speakers except my subs and listened to it and noticed on songs that i know the bass is 1 simple square wave it sounded like 2 oscillators with one oscillator going in and out of tune with the other. this didnt happen with any of the ab amps i tried it with everything sounded tighter more in control. maybe its just these class d amps im using they are cheap or maybe the eq phase gain or subsonic filter was set wrong every single time i adjusted them or the lower damping factor class d amps have. idk but it annoys me

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:34 pm

you shouldnt be ablt to hear a difference.....

colemanyoungerinalaska · Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:38 pm

i do for sure

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:07 pm

then its the way you have your settings. there aint no way in hell u can here the diffrence

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:06 pm

Come on guys ... he's from Alaska ... They're thin on oxygen up there.
I'm just messing around Alaska guy. I love Alaska. I flew up there for a week once when I thought I was going to be moving there. It was awesome. I'd take Alaska over DC any day.

jonnyb · Post by **jonnyb** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:26 pm

if you think you can hear a difference, you can win $10,000!

colemanyoungerinalaska · Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:50 pm

i can definitely hear the difference. i made sure all the settings were the same on the ab and d amps. im pretty sure its the lower damping factor of class d amps

Post by **GlassWolf** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:27 am

what you're hearing is distortion caused by something such as the gain being set too high or just a cheap amplifier with a poor quality power supply.
It's not the amplifier topography that's causing the audible distortion though.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:34 am

colemanyoungerinalaska wrote:i can definitely hear the difference. i made sure all the settings were the same on the ab and d amps. im pretty sure its the lower damping factor of class d amps

that could be your problem setting 2 diffrent amps with the same settings doesnt mean there gonna produce the exact same sound. u need to make sure that your amps are set properly to the amps not to another amp.

colemanyoungerinalaska · Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:36 am

the gains are correct that is for sure.
i just got off work so ill probably go mess with it some more