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I’ve been looking through the stereo amp reviews and it seems a lot of them don’t measure great compared to headphone amps and the ones that do are really expensive.
Well, headphone amps only need to produce a couple of watts and loudspeaker amps sometime needs to produce hundreds. Is it reasonable to expect that they'd always have the same performance?
Anyway, more to the thrust of your question, there are lots of stereo amps for less than a kiloquid that are audibly transparent.