Athens 2014: Wilson Audio Sasha II dancing with the Devi(a)l(et)

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And nice to see someone (a dealer) correcting him in the comments! Actually there's some new comments since I last read it and they're quite interesting.

I found this comment by John Bevier particularly interesting:

"Proof the Devialet is not an industry standard “Class-D” amp, I’ve personally removed the back off the unit, gently removed the Class-D modules and to the utter amazement of the room full of people, the amplifier just keeps playing – no drop in gain, no change in sound – just the same sweet sounding delicate precise sound as before."

One of the senior Devialet engineers did that at an Oxford Audio Consultants day a few years ago, with a D-Premier.
Since the way ADH works is, to use their analogy, a bit like power steering, the amp works fine with the digital modules removed, but the max current available is much reduced and the output impedance goes up a lot.
Without power steering you can still steer, it is just heavy and slow.
Reading the replies by the Greek author leads me to believe he is either not very technically minded, hard of understanding, or something. He seems more than usually obtuse.