Build an ICEpower Class D Amp from scratch & take on Class A and tubes #59

And Ice Power's probably been trailing a little bit.

There's a lot of manufacturers use the product.

In fact, I think when I spoke to Patrick from memory...

I think it's in the interview, but I think maybe a million modules or something.

I mean, they have made an enormous amount.

They've been around since the late 90s, and they, of course, have improved the breed.

But in the hi-fi end of the market, the

sort of, you know, you call it the,

I think we coined the phrase recently, the performance market.

Hi-Fi into the market.

Um, they, um, have probably been trailing a little bit.

Well, this is Patrick, the designers, all that effort to, uh, to turn that around.

Now, when they released that, we published some information on it.

Um, I was kind of interested because I get involved with Ice Power products from time to time.

They, like all things, they occasionally fail and I get involved with changing them in products, etc., as part of my day job.

And I'm always kind of impressed with the way they're made.

And I frankly think they sound pretty good too.

But when they said they, you know, they made a pretty serious announcement that they're going to take it to the next level or have taken it to the next level with this new module.

It really, for some reason, tweaked my interest.

Um, the other thing is, okay, so they've made some fairly bold claims about how good it sounds, how transparent it is, how low a distortion, the distortion is impossibly low, um, infinitely low.

Um, you're like, well, what a big... great if there was a way to check that and clearly measurements really aren't useful and I mean these are products that are designed for manufacturers to use and put into a completed product so you can't really just listen to the module by itself but I did do some further examination and it occurred to me that really the extra circuitry if you were to keep say, an integrated amplifier design, really super simple.

And I like super simple.

I like well put together and super simple.

And so often it adds up to good sound.

So I looked into it, looked at the notes, and then further spoke to Patrick about it when we were conducting the interview at the show.

And Ice Power's probably been trailing a little bit.

There's a lot of manufacturers use the product.

In fact, I think when I spoke to Patrick from memory...

I think it's in the interview, but I think maybe a million modules or something.

I mean, they have made an enormous amount.

They've been around since the late 90s, and they, of course, have improved the breed.

But in the hi-fi end of the market, the

sort of, you know, you call it the,

I think we coined the phrase recently, the performance market.

Hi-Fi into the market.

Um, they, um, have probably been trailing a little bit.

Well, this is Patrick, the designers, all that effort to, uh, to turn that around.

Now, when they released that, we published some information on it.

Um, I was kind of interested because I get involved with Ice Power products from time to time.

They, like all things, they occasionally fail and I get involved with changing them in products, etc., as part of my day job.

And I'm always kind of impressed with the way they're made.

And I frankly think they sound pretty good too.

But when they said they, you know, they made a pretty serious announcement that they're going to take it to the next level or have taken it to the next level with this new module.

It really, for some reason, tweaked my interest.

Um, the other thing is, okay, so they've made some fairly bold claims about how good it sounds, how transparent it is, how low a distortion, the distortion is impossibly low, um, infinitely low.

Um, you're like, well, what a big... great if there was a way to check that and clearly measurements really aren't useful and I mean these are products that are designed for manufacturers to use and put into a completed product so you can't really just listen to the module by itself but I did do some further examination and it occurred to me that really the extra circuitry if you were to keep say, an integrated amplifier design, really super simple.

And I like super simple.

I like well put together and super simple.

And so often it adds up to good sound.

So I looked into it, looked at the notes, and then further spoke to Patrick about it when we were conducting the interview at the show.