How is it even possible to take a modern DAC chip and build something around it that yields a SINAD below 70 db. I have to think someone was actually trying to do that. And if we could find two strong men to hold that person down while I injected the Pentothol into his corotid, we might all know why.
Which very much matches mine:[Polish] https://audio.com.pl/testy/stereo/wzmacniacze-stereo/3327-hegel-h95
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HEGEL H95
Model H95 zastąpił H90 po 3 latach. Jak na sprzęt stereo z tego przedziału cenowego to ruch stosunkowo szybki, a zmiany nie ograniczają ...audio-com-pl.translate.goog
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actually hegel has been around for a long time. i was at a private lecture held by the founder Bent Holter over 15 years ago.
. It sells. You know, technology is boring for non-technically oriented guys.
my guess is that he might appeal to a younger demographic.
When Hegel started out some 20 years ago, they branded themselves as a no nonsense company with a science based approach, coming out of the university system. It would be interesting to see if their current amplifiers are actually worse than their original 20 year old designs.
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It is a good sounding amp. I have no complaints about the performance. The pre-out situation is really annoying and has been noted by others with the amp.
I wonder what they think the purpose of a line out is, if it is not to buffer and be able to produce a measly 2 volt output. Line out would be used for an external amplifier these days so it would be acting as a pre-amp output anyway.
Looking at the manual (which contains a handful of photos of people in the mountains for some reason), the only time it mentioned the line-outs is for subwoofer usage. And their webpage states “a variable pre output for connecting a subwoofer or other equipment,”. If Hegel really did intend for this to be mostly for subwoofers, they should have labeled it as a sub out, as not sure what “other equipment” means other than a power amp unless meaning an analog recorder.
people still trying to sell bs like this... i really fear for his friends and family....Oh BoY! This guy is going to be eating his words, "The DA converter is massively improved" "Much more expensive DAC" " DAC is the same as in the H120 and the H190" "AKM DAC chip" "H95 is revealing more detail, is more fluid, more musical than the H90, paints a bigger soundstage, so you can really hear the flow wide and deep of the speakers" and blah blah he goes on and on.
This guy is a goof.
Terrible results. I wonder if there is at least some fancy design story behind the product. Maybe somebody of Hegel could join us and tell
Answer from Hegel (official Hegel facebook group):
Measuring audio products is a difficult task. You obviously have to know what you are doing and also have the required knowhow on the subject of the measurements to establish the correct procedure so you don't end up with the misleading results. This "review" gets off on the wrong foot straight away in that respect by measuring the distortion on the variable output at volume level 98. H95 is an integrated amp, not a preamp, so a 2 volt signal on the variable output is outside parameters and will be heavily distorted. This continues with some rather unorthodox measurements and strange results which we of course would like to comment, so please give us some time for a propper response.
You can in the meantime read the lab report from Hi-Fi News & Record Review, which is also done totally independently without any input from us, which I suspect is closer to the truth. Remember that an integrated amp like H95 is designed to play music on a loudspeaker and the proof is always in the pudding.
Hegel H95 Network-Attached Amp Lab Report
Lab Report If Hegel's mammoth H590 [HFN Oct '18] and H390 [HFN Aug '19] are both kilowatt-capable integrated amplifiers then the new baby of the range is necessarily more 'measured' in its, er, measurements. It's certainly very comfortable driving 8 and 4ohm loads where its 60W specification is...
And from Anders Erdzeid (VP Sales and Marketing):
Just wanted to let you all know that we will be looking in to these measurements ourselves and see if we can replicate somehow.
It is important to say that we are using the best possible measurement tools from Audio Precision at our development center in Oslo, and take very much care in measurements during R&D for Hegel products. Of course especially in terms of distortion. We will come back with more info once we know.
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