I spent $170 on pizza and champagne for dinner tonight. No need to convince me. I am not the market for this even if it was priced according to its performance.
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Arylic A50 Review (wireless amplifier)
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You misunderstood. You made no mistake. I utilized poetic licence for ironical
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Its a bad implementation of a bargain product
My recommendation is Loxjie A30 in this application.
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Quite easy and unfortunate to misunderstand electronic communication.
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I hope the wine was your problem. My test for pizza is based on the Totino pizza standard. I would rather stick 1.39 Totino in the oven that eat any franchise crap.
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I would love to get my hands on one for the use I have in mind but it's sold out nearly everywhere I've looked.
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Sorry
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So @amirm, are you now drawing a line in the sand at ~0.14% THD+N at 5W and terminating the review for any amplifer going forward? I can see -60dB (0.1%) (the red section) as being a nice cutoff, where you can rule out further wasting of review time.
Champagne was $70, pizza $55, tip $45. I figured I needed to cover a few hours of the waitress' time based on the way things looked when I picked them up.
People seem to forget that the most common THD spec for amps is 1% (-40dB), which is what John Atkinson still uses to determine amp wattage. Next common is 0.1% (-60dB), which is about what this achieves. AVRs usually get a hair more brave and tout 0.08% (-62dB), of which I have no idea why they do this.
With the music sources and speakers typically used with this amp, I have no doubt the vast majority of customers of this product don’t hear any issues with respect to noise/distortion. I don’t like the speaker connection, but for <$200 to get AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, DLNA/UPNP, and use their app for (Amazon Music, Tidal, iHeartRadio, etc.), it seems like an awesome little package. Their app also seems to allow multi-device streaming. The 50W 4ohm rating however will mean home theater enthusiasts maybe shouldn’t consider it [EDIT: Looks more like 30W 4ohm actual performance].
On another note, they have a preamp with (besides other things) AirPlay and optical out, does anyone know of other ~$200 options? I see purchase help requests decently often where they want this (setup where they want to keep their amp/DAC and just add AirPlay support).
With the music sources and speakers typically used with this amp, I have no doubt the vast majority of customers of this product don’t hear any issues with respect to noise/distortion. I don’t like the speaker connection, but for <$200 to get AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, DLNA/UPNP, and use their app for (Amazon Music, Tidal, iHeartRadio, etc.), it seems like an awesome little package. Their app also seems to allow multi-device streaming. The 50W 4ohm rating however will mean home theater enthusiasts maybe shouldn’t consider it [EDIT: Looks more like 30W 4ohm actual performance].
On another note, they have a preamp with (besides other things) AirPlay and optical out, does anyone know of other ~$200 options? I see purchase help requests decently often where they want this (setup where they want to keep their amp/DAC and just add AirPlay support).
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I think we need to consider price and alternatives, among other factors.
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I don't think anyone "forgets" that.
0.1% was achievable in 1949 by Harold Leak's range of amplifiers.
http://44bx.com/leak/PointOne2.html
We have moved along quite a bit from there.
Let us put this in perspective. Yamaha R-S202 is $150. Loxjie A30 is $160 (if you can find it).
As far as amps go, absolutely (those both also have Toslink and line-outs for subwoofers).
The Wi-Fi aspect is a decently big deal though. As an iPhone user, AirPlay support is very welcomed, I dislike connecting to Bluetooth (I always turn it off when not in use). This is also the cheapest product I know of where you can do multi-device streaming (I think their site says the app can connect up to 10 of these together).
Seems impossible to find the Loxjie these days. Is it discontinued?
I don't thinks so. @peterwen would know. Peter, why is it so hard to find the wonderful A30?
This company seems to be trying to benefit from Auralic's good name. For that reason alone, I would avoid them. (What others do is up to them, of course.)
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Oh John, we show our age. I remember Dynaco power amp kit in 71. .5 THD. And that was good. Not sure if I reached Nirvana at that time.with the soldering iron. My ears were young.
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