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Worth noting, the popping is only there for AC on/off. In daily use the power switch is only a standby-switch, which retains power to an anti-pop circuit. So in normal use you'd have no popping, basically ever.

You would never in a million years hear the difference and this design has substantially more power and much higher level construction

The slope is correct, yes

I mean... They're just laptop power supplies. They shouldn't really be dying just from being turned off at the socket, that's how you'd usually turn them off I guess? Anyway, I don't think the amp would be damaged by this, but maybe on a long enough time line, who knows

So what I think you'd end up doing is similar to having a USB-controlled extension-cord, that would switch off all but the main outlet (here that would be your AVR) when the AVR powers off/USB power is removed. So the amp would power off completely, meaning the anti-pop circuitry would not work...

I have been lucky to find a Crown CT8150 used for a pittance. Would it make sense to use it for powering our multi-channel setup, using the pre-outs from my NAD T758 v3? The v3 pre-outs have rather poor distortion and noise specs as seen in the review here on ASR, but if I don't turn it up past...

I can try. I just winged it.

Two of these running a 16-channel Atmos-system out of a PC would be a sight to see.

Having bought the Audiophonics-branded TPA3251 amplifier for outboard amplification of additional channels, I was a bit disappointed that my usual scheme of using a power-saving extension-cord would result in very audible and worrying "pop" from the connected speakers on power-off. Turns out...

I almost want to see a review of their $1000 DSP-controlled 700W amp now. But I'm not sure anyone should waste their money for our entertainment. https://www.earthquakesound.com/index.php/en/home-audio-division/home-products/home-amplifiers/item/xj-700dsp

The same guy who claims distortion doesn't matter thinks you can hear whether your wire goes straight into the speaker. There's a point here somewhere.

Well with this and my experience with Earthquake's FF-12 subwoofer, which they incidentally claim is a 400W sub with frequency response down to 25 Hz, which turned out to be categorically wrong, I think I'll just write off the manufacturer in general going forwards.

I can never actually decipher if these people are serious or not. It's a fascinating non-argument to point to obviously flawed reviewing practices as criticism of Amir's way of doing things, yet it's done with absolute conviction.

But only into one channel. The peak power is still tested with both channels running here, I think.

I know this is an older thread, but there's a review with measurements in German here: https://www.tools4music.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=4124&token=88ed6ee4e8f77ea00c3c62c5ba4422b0734429a5