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The others won't be musically better either. They are after all amplifiers not composers or performers :-)

I never said anything about electricity prices, why would you think that is the case? To me the engineering imperfection is far more...

The rollout of Spotify Lossless and Tidal (Connect) made lots of great Yamahas, such as WXC/WXA-50 and R-N602/803, obsolete. Or at least...

As gwing already mentioned above, every half a decent hifi amplification system needs some sort of tone control. One additional and...

It doesn't really work like that, having tone controls and filters doesn't make an amp either adequate or inadequate. The need for...

You mean that "A half decent amp doesn’t need" tone controls at all?

I think the point is that such an advanced and expensive room correction technology (a Dirac Live license that corrects frequencies up...

Interesting article about "The Measurement Revolution". The contribution of ASR it clearly recognized in the text.

Sound quality will be identical either way, with the following caveats: 1) Wiim Amp Ultra has more power, though whether that will make...

Got my stereo a7. Sounds... Like an amp.

That's not true. The SMSL VMV A2 amplifier has been rated more than positively here by Amir.

I understand your point but I'm wondering how many M1 owners use Dirac Live and how many among them would be more than satisfied to use...

This would be appropriate performance for a cheap product way under 500, but certainly not for 1000. Lol. Not if you can get killer...

In most modern HiFi setups, to achieve high-level performance, in addition to speakers, all you need is a streamer with a good DAC (Wiim...

The SMSL VMV A2 is also a FDA with the AX5689 digital feedback control system (same as the Sabaj A30A). The amp stage is better here ...