Hi @amirm and ASR folks.
I'm just starting my first thread to ask some thoughts and views about my main integrated amp. The Denon PMA-2500NE flagship (≃ 2999€). This is my beloved big beast. It is hugely massive and weights 25kg, so sending it to Amir (furthermore, from France) is out of question. Alas, it is only available in Japan and EU, so I don't think this unit is going to be reviewed here anytime soon.
I bought it, like in most case, only based on many very positive (and subjective) reviews I've red everywhere. Few measurements I found, apart from official specs, are ones from Hi-Fi News. Here they are:
As I'm used to read ASR measurements, I don't know how this would be translated by "Amir's standards". I guess this is not that great (especially "poor" SNR). However, I'm not necessarily thinking to upgrade... even if I have to admit that buying an Benchmark AHB2 comes to mind... cost and availability in France are big draws . I'm nut sure if this would be somewhat "audible" upgrade anyway! Here are the Hi-Fi News measurements of the AHB2 for comparison:
I'm still interested if someone may comment on the objective performance showed here...
PS: I'm talking exclusively about the amp performance, I don't use the integrated DAC since I've got my ADI-2 DAC.
I'm just starting my first thread to ask some thoughts and views about my main integrated amp. The Denon PMA-2500NE flagship (≃ 2999€). This is my beloved big beast. It is hugely massive and weights 25kg, so sending it to Amir (furthermore, from France) is out of question. Alas, it is only available in Japan and EU, so I don't think this unit is going to be reviewed here anytime soon.
I bought it, like in most case, only based on many very positive (and subjective) reviews I've red everywhere. Few measurements I found, apart from official specs, are ones from Hi-Fi News. Here they are:
As I'm used to read ASR measurements, I don't know how this would be translated by "Amir's standards". I guess this is not that great (especially "poor" SNR). However, I'm not necessarily thinking to upgrade... even if I have to admit that buying an Benchmark AHB2 comes to mind... cost and availability in France are big draws . I'm nut sure if this would be somewhat "audible" upgrade anyway! Here are the Hi-Fi News measurements of the AHB2 for comparison:
I'm still interested if someone may comment on the objective performance showed here...
PS: I'm talking exclusively about the amp performance, I don't use the integrated DAC since I've got my ADI-2 DAC.
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