Hi
I posit that
@Uranus is having a good fun:
Posting to an internet forum suggest a modicum of research about the general philosophy of the forum. I would surmise that no research results (in any human language) would suggest that ASR consider price as a a valid performance metric. To put it bluntly" High Prices do not sway us" All the contrary... We are eager to prove that it is not so ... We don't give a rat ass about high prices. We are he forum whose serious measuring protocol and adherence to the Science of Audio, have demonstrated, yes,
demonstrated that that an Apple dongle at $9.85 was more performant than a$15,000 DAC.. or that over $60 is the threshold of diminishing returns for IEM... or to put in other words SOTA performances for IEM begins at, under $6 State Of The Art)...
The best DAC tested here are all under $1000 with many of the absolute best hovering around $200 ...
As for amplifiers the Hypex and Purifi-based amplifiers routinely provide world class performance and power at less $2000 often at less than $1000.
The measurements and reviews are here for anyone to find...
yet
@Uranus (Yep a, a bathroom joke worthy handle) comes up and specify a high price for a power amplifier ... as one of the criteria .. the other being the wattage: "300 or over.." to drop a bit of obfuscation,, there are 1000 wpc amplifiers at $1000 ...
And this transparent attempt has elicited replies surprisingly, for , so far, 6 pages!!
Won't feed any longer, the troll.
I am out
Peace.