Are the Class D ICE amps any good?

[Keith1964]

I have a chance to buy a brand new still in box 2008 Pioneer Elite SC-05 7 channel AV Receiver, it has the class D ICE amps in it. I have never had a receiver with class D ICE amps, always AB amps. Does anyone have one of these receivers or have any experience with the ICE amps?

 

[mazersteven]

Ice Amps are great. Good quality

 

[Leemix]

2008 is very old though so connecting and using it in a practical manner might be very difficult or impossible.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Keith1964]

2008 is very old though so connecting and using it in a practical manner might be very difficult or impossible.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It does HDMI switching and does DD-TrueHD and DTS Master audio, no Atmos which i don't need.

 

[M Code]

The early ICE modules used by Pioneer were the state of the art 10 years ago...
But were later replaced with higher performance Class D solutions, IR produced the MOS-FETs outputs and they came out with their own Class D solution that Pioneer/Elite used after the ICE solution.
How much better was the later IR Class D solution compared to the early ICE??
It was slightly better sonically, but its major advantage was lower material $ cost by about 27%....

Just my $0.02...