Triple Test – Hypex Nilai – Purifi Eigentakt Eval1 – ICEpower 700AS2

Another great listening test thanks guys. The difference between the Hypex and the others was clear enough via your youtube video and my ipad’s speakers. The Nilai’s greater naturalness, flow, harmonics and decay became even more pronounced replaying your flac files via good headphones.

After having dipped my toes into current gen Class D with the impressive Topping PA5, I’ve been close to pulling the trigger on one of NAD’s M23, but on the back of this test I just had to order a Hypex Nilai at less than half the cost. I look forward to pairing it with my Denafrips Athena and seeing how it goes.

As an aside, I am sorry you had to endure a couple of unkind and unwarranted comments over in a certain forum. I made the mistake of visiting it for the first time in a while to read about their Nilai measurement review, but the prevailing attitudes there are so deeply unpleasant and close-minded I would do better to avoid it entirely and suggest you might wish to do the same. The irony of banning discussion of your listening test which highlights easily audible differences between a group of very high measuring (SINAD etc) class D amps was next level, but alas terribly predictable, as it demonstrates the inadequacy of their suite of measurements to capture all an amplifier’s characteristics that produce audible differences relevant to human psycho-acoustic perception.

Please don’t let the attitude over there discourage you from continuing your great work – there are many of us who greatly appreciate the effort you put into producing high quality comparative listening tests and measurements, letting the results lie where they fall.

Salut!

Another great listening test thanks guys. The difference between the Hypex and the others was clear enough via your youtube video and my ipad’s speakers. The Nilai’s greater naturalness, flow, harmonics and decay became even more pronounced replaying your flac files via good headphones.

After having dipped my toes into current gen Class D with the impressive Topping PA5, I’ve been close to pulling the trigger on one of NAD’s M23, but on the back of this test I just had to order a Hypex Nilai at less than half the cost. I look forward to pairing it with my Denafrips Athena and seeing how it goes.

As an aside, I am sorry you had to endure a couple of unkind and unwarranted comments over in a certain forum. I made the mistake of visiting it for the first time in a while to read about their Nilai measurement review, but the prevailing attitudes there are so deeply unpleasant and close-minded I would do better to avoid it entirely and suggest you might wish to do the same. The irony of banning discussion of your listening test which highlights easily audible differences between a group of very high measuring (SINAD etc) class D amps was next level, but alas terribly predictable, as it demonstrates the inadequacy of their suite of measurements to capture all an amplifier’s characteristics that produce audible differences relevant to human psycho-acoustic perception.

Please don’t let the attitude over there discourage you from continuing your great work – there are many of us who greatly appreciate the effort you put into producing high quality comparative listening tests and measurements, letting the results lie where they fall.

Salut!