Does this suffer from dry mids like a lot of Class d amps.
Not at all.
This is the first class D amp that doesn't sound dry like the others I've owned for 10 years. At home in the living room, the A30a came to replace a pair of Musical Fidelity class AB amplifiers, to bi-amplify my previous speakers. I wanted the ease of use of an FDA amp with just one knob.
And buying the A30a without having heard it, I was a little worried that the quality of the medium would not be up to par with my new Focal Chora 826 speakers...because I listen to a lot of classical and jazz music, and for me the quality of the stamps in the mediums is important to me.
I was hoping for a natural sound like you find in all good amplifiers in class AB or A, but I was won over by its musicality from the start.
In fact unlike the video, the A30a is very balanced and does not favor part of the precise sound spectrum, it sounds very flat. As I already have, this is my first class D amp which makes me forget that it is class D.
On the other hand, if you have enough quality speakers, if you listen to average quality recordings, the defects will come out very easily, but never to the detriment of listening pleasure. I listened to recordings from the 60s and 70s (remastered for several), and I had fun listening to them even if the recording faults of the time stand out.
In the end, as said by a member of the forum above, the Sabaj A30a sounds like a good amp, neither more nor less, it's not a magic box. The Axign controller really hits the mark. This amplifier is a full digital FDA, and it is here that it earns points (dynamics, sinad etc..).
We can of course have better but at what price.
Calculate how much a good dac with balanced outputs and an amplifier of this power costs, and then we will compare oranges with oranges and not against an amplifier at 5-10 times its price.
