I think i've been misunderstood a bit. Or a strawman is lurking on the horizon.

First, while harmonic distortion driving a resistive load is not the sole criteria for amp 'goodness' I doubt driving a difficult load would improve things.

Second, while I _REALLY_ like the concept of digital amps and agree in theory that they can deliver lots of the good stuff (current, efficiency, low cost) I've not yet witnessed an example of theory becoming practice.

Third, regarding 'chip amps', again in theory, the number of transistors an engineer chooses to group on a semiconductor (1,2, lots) has little in and of itself to do with anything.

Charlie

PS - Look at the eAR specs. It's pretty clear the filtering inductor is not playing nice with the load - a resistor. A reactive load is likely not going to improve it, either.

[This message has been edited by charlie (edited August 12, 2002).]