Primare A35.2.

OTOACOUSTIC emissions; LOUDSPEAKERS; CEREBRAL dominance; SWITCHING power supplies; OHM'S law

Sequence is everything The only way I know to review a basic amplifier is to take out the amp that's driving whichever speaker is in the system and replace it with the amp I'm scheduled to review. The tone was good, and the A35.2's transparency was conspicuous, but the Primare amplifier sounded a lot different than the 20Wpc "class-A-like" Schiit Audio Aegir amplifier it replaced. Description The Primare A35.2 is a stereo amplifier that weighs 26lb, measures 5.7" high × 16.9" deep × 15.7" wide, and features what Primare calls their "proprietary UFPD2 analogue class-D amplification technology" to deliver 200Wpc into 8 ohms, and the ability to be easily bridged into mono for 800W (!) into 8 ohms. The design brief went on to explain why Primare thinks the A35.2 is superior to other class-D amplifiers: "A major source of distortion in Class-D designs is the demodulation filter on the output that becomes unstable with variations in loudspeaker impedance unless it's controlled by sufficient feedback. [Extracted from the article]

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