Comments on Profile Post by Yethal

They’ve existed for awhile but primarily as class D amps. There’s very few desktop Class AB amps and even fewer that are reasonably priced

The only class AB small amp I can think of was the burson bang and that thing was $500-$600 depending on the opamps. All of the more affordable stuff was chip-based topping/smsl

emotive basx a2m also exists, Pretty cool unit, although it's known to have a lean, class-d parallel sound, and it's not tiny. In terms in true desktop-sized units for this pricepoint, schiit's definitely in a class of their own. Super happy that finally a competitor exists. I'm tired of telling people their only option is a crappy class d from an even crappier company.

Emotive would've worked better if the internals were rotated 90 degrees. In it's current shape it's way too long to fit on a desk