totti1965
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LMAO! New York is an expensive place! He really needs the money!There are several glowing online reviews for this unit. This is my favorite
LMAO! New York is an expensive place! He really needs the money!There are several glowing online reviews for this unit. This is my favorite
Not necesarily. Depends on how it measures and sounds.I am disappointed. Now I'm wondering if I should sell my PMA-900HNE which I have been happy with but now maybe the performance isn't up to snuff
Accountants rule audio companies now?That is the shame. They could be improved with little or no cost. Just some care in design. I'd even guess there are plenty working for them who would relish the chance to show that care in design, but either aren't encouraged or are not allowed to do so. If you take a device like this and significant parts of it will be made for possibly a decade can you not make it better for not much effort? The HDAM's from Marantz have been okay, but nothing more for almost 20 years. Imagine if they'd just bothered to make them pretty good. Then again, I guess they made just as much money in their minds without the bother.
Although, as always, we might wonder whether such improvements would be audible...It is depressing indeed and that is how I felt through the review, test after test. Hopefully in the future measurements will play a more important role in the company as I am sure a lot of these results could be improved with little to no cost.
I am disappointed. Now I'm wondering if I should sell my PMA-900HNE which I have been happy with but now maybe the performance isn't up to snuff
I am afraid the average ASR reader doesn't need anything working another 30 years.Thirty to forty years back, on a tech test it would have been regarded as great value and highly competent! Definitely from the 'Good Enough' era of lower cost commercial/international amp design!
Thing is, I suspect this product will still be working in thirty years' time. Will the raved-over (here) little desktop sinad-special boxes be doing the same I wonder?
Looks alright to me. Unless you've got some special, super critical application in mind...View attachment 326070
Taken from the manufacturer site : https://assets.denon.com/DocumentMaster/MASTER/Denon_PMA-900HNE_Infosheet_EU.pdf
Now that is pretty funny...me being a former 3x SAAB owner (85 SPG, 2001 Viggen, 2008 Aero XWD.......
[disclaimer: this is junk comment, I just wanted to feel young for a second and sound like a teenager praising subaru in a saab forum lol..]
I personally did not like it when I heard it. But if I liked it I would not be affected by this.I had liked the sound of this amp when I demoed in a store. I never imagined it measured this bad. Now I dont like it anymore.
I've been very pleased with my PMA520. I bought it for a desktop system, just for a bit of music while I work, and it's now in the front room driving some half decent speakers! It's been totally reliable and ticks every 'fit for purpose' box I can think of. And if it measured any better, would I actually be able to hear the difference and would it matter anyway for watching a bit of telly of an evening?I've bought PMA520AE to my friend and payed something around 120-130$, used in a perfect condition.
For that amount of money it was a wonderful option while paired with some small standmount Dali's (zensor 5 if I'm not mistaken) and cheap streamer.
For me it's really hard to blame such a cheap solution that didnt have any critical disadvantages. It's just OK.