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RE: Is this a cheaper alternative to Devialet? - f1eng - 01-Jul-2015
(22-Jun-2015, 02:22)photon Wrote: I'm a D200 owner, but I find this new offering from Nuprime intriguing in it's similar technologies. If their class A/class D hybrid amp sounds good, then for $995 it might offer the budget shopper a taste of Devialet's sound.
http://www.nuprimeaudio.com/index.php/pages/pages-overview/integrated-amps/ida-8
Nothing like a Devialet at all, in either architecture or functionality.
Not to say it may not be a good class-D amp with conventional preamp and DAC in the same box, so in that respect it is just as much an alternative to a Devialet as any other integrated amp might be, but functionally absolutely nothing like it.
RE: Is this a cheaper alternative to Devialet? - Rodney Gold - 06-Aug-2015
Read my "comparison " here.. Its not even close to my D premier...I tried it for a few days and then sold it on.
Brilliant package for the money (was $700 here) tho..
http://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,46429.0.html
RE: Is this a cheaper alternative to Devialet? - Pim - 06-Aug-2015
(06-Aug-2015, 08:11)Rodney Gold Wrote: Read my "comparison " here.. Its not even close to my D premier...I tried it for a few days and then sold it on.
Brilliant package for the money (was $700 here) tho..
http://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,46429.0.html
Did you sell it on before you had a chance to try it on your mate's G2/G3's?
It would be great to compare it with a 120
RE: Is this a cheaper alternative to Devialet? - Rodney Gold - 06-Aug-2015
No, I didn't. It was so far apart from my d premier that there was no point trying it vs a 120 (which has more or less the same sound as the d prem)
If it were close to the devialet in SQ , I might have
I didnt want to pick the ida 8 apart in that forum but it had much worse bass control , a flat single dimension presentation and a shrillness in the high's .. , I'm not sure what part of the IDA 8 was responsible, the dac/pre or the amp .. but I wasnt gonna waste time trying to find out
great for a 2nd or lesser system but the Dpremier which I bought for round $7000 (2nd hand) is worth the almost 10x the price of the ida 8 for its SQ alone...
Its not a giant killer