The irony is if hypothetically this thread had none of the March Audio posts of outrage against John's perceived attempts to malign hypex amps and the responses to him (hypothetical, not saying anything should be removed to prevent another perceived slight), this cap thing would be a long-forgotten thing just like it was with NAD.
John would have expressed his opinion that it should have had better caps for the price, gathered a few likes and everybody would have moved on to drooling over the power specs.
No sales to Hypex amps would have been lost to anyone who would actually consider buying one, Apollon Audio's professional conduct and responses would still have gathered a few customers in the future which is unaffected by this Aussie mating ritual between John and March Audio.
All this tedious fuming and stomping has just made readers more aware of the cap issue who will likely more deeply associate Hypex with poorer rated caps (whether sufficient or not) and a discussed issue whenever another Hypex amp is torn down and people on the fence about Purifi vs Hypex will likely tend towards the former with "better caps" and a few likely (some who have expessed this) would reconsider doing business with March Audio.
The big question I ask myself from reading this thread is what Amirm would do for a appeal to authority analogy if he were to be a actual doctor..,
If you perceive so, that is the reality to you, I am sure.
And you need to also check your incredibly disrespectful posts towards, and about me, and now even your host @amirm.
As @amirm has stated, both he, myself, and others have praised much of Hypex and Purifi's performance in this thread and in the past. But they need to lift their collective game on component choice. No ifs, buts or maybes. Plenty of people on the fence over Hypex will adopt a wait and see approach and I don't blame them. Plenty of people will read this and see your explosive posts and wonder. I don't blame them either. Others won't care.
But rest assured, when I see my friend with the events hire business which was decimated by Covid19 this year, we'll hopefully photograph and show all the written off Hypex plate amplifiers in his powered large stand mounted speakers, which use the EXACT same Su'scon capacitors (NC500 amp based) in the Hypex SMPSs we are talking about in this thread. The ones that bulged and vented in normal use last year and cost him a ton of money in on-site replacements at inopportune times. No wonder he went to JBL equipment, as in his words it was "totally indestructible".
Sorry John you are wrong again. I specifically stated there was more too it, that this was the basic equation and referenced the rubycon datasheet which explains it in detail.
Ask Alan. He's using the SMPSs and the amplifiers. He'll know the rated, actual, and typical use numbers for the caps, the implementation and whether they are conservative or not. He can give specifics.
Personally, I think it will all stack up nicely for a reasonable life...on paper. It's the real world where it all falls apart. We'll find that out in years to come I guess.
But as our ever tolerant moderator @Thomas savage has said, we are going around in circles. I'm happy to put it all to bed tonight and move on in a new, more positive direction tomorrow.
There really is nothing further to discuss. So its ended are far as Im concerned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effectThe irony is if hypothetically this thread had none of the March Audio posts of outrage against John's perceived attempts to malign hypex amps and the responses to him (hypothetical, not saying anything should be removed to prevent another perceived slight), this cap thing would be a long-forgotten thing just like it was with NAD.
John would have expressed his opinion that it should have had better caps for the price, gathered a few likes and everybody would have moved on to drooling over the power specs.
No sales to Hypex amps would have been lost to anyone who would actually consider buying one, Apollon Audio's professional conduct and responses would still have gathered a few customers in the future which is unaffected by this Aussie mating ritual between John and March Audio.
All this tedious fuming and stomping has just made readers more aware of the cap issue who will likely more deeply associate Hypex with poorer rated caps (whether sufficient or not) and a discussed issue whenever another Hypex amp is torn down and people on the fence about Purifi vs Hypex will likely tend towards the former with "better caps" and a few likely (some who have expessed this) would reconsider doing business with March Audio.
