Truely digital?

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iAbit iDome D500 Pure Digital 2.1 Speaker System (SP-000-AB)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/2_1_Speakers.html

These claim to be truely digital.

Now from my experience with digital Class D amps (TacT Millenium if anyone remembers the first digital amp - beating abit's claim by many years!), if these really have a Class D amp in them I'll be very interested in replacing my rather carpy sounding JBL Creature IIs..

Looking at the specs - they claim class D :D

Basically class D means you connect the main power supply to your speakers and use a very rapid switching (GHz speed) to step the speaker using the signal - causing amplification.

http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/robert01.htm

Thought about buying one of these in my earlier days.. only 5K at time :D

Have a look at this...
http://www.tactaudio.dk/graphics2/millennium/5546x02.html

Note the size of the power supplies on the left and right. The whole amplification is done by the switching silicon under the big "TacT" shielding - the switches need shielding as they operate so fast they're almost emitting microwaves!

Gibbo - when are these landing?
My mx700 has decided to go nuts (not batteries etc) so that needs replacing too...
 
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I personally wouldn't be convinced without hearing them. The all digital route makes sense in the TacT Millenium which is designed for use with very high quality speakers, but in a PC set it seems a bit contradictary. Your using this potentially very high quality amplification process then outputting into comparatively cheap speakers. I reckon that present day analogue systems are more than good enough for PC sound applications and am sure the speakers themselves introduce far more distorion than even quite cheap analogue amplifiers. No doubt a good set of PC speakers though and will save a bit of electric too with the efficient amplification :D
 
Dr.EM said:
I personally wouldn't be convinced without hearing them. The all digital route makes sense in the TacT Millenium which is designed for use with very high quality speakers, but in a PC set it seems a bit contradictary. Your using this potentially very high quality amplification process then outputting into comparatively cheap speakers. I reckon that present day analogue systems are more than good enough for PC sound applications and am sure the speakers themselves introduce far more distorion than even quite cheap analogue amplifiers. No doubt a good set of PC speakers though and will save a bit of electric too with the efficient amplification :D

Good point.. will have to wait for a small HiFi D class to appear... not much point in having an amp that can do a square wave if the speakers aren't up to it.
 
Depends what your after. If you just want to replace your current speakers I expect iDome set are good PC speakers. If you wanted to spend a lot more getting a very high quality full digital system then thats a different scenario. I reckon the iDome mainly use thier digital capacity as a marketing tool, it probably is genuine, but isn't paired with speakers that will fully exploit its benefits. I would like to hear a set nonetheless, just incase I am missing out on something here :)
 
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