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Ralferator
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Seems to be comparable to the SMSL SA300 - would be nice to have a test of both sometime.
Vini darko
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Im suprised by how normal this looks. Thought loxjie was smsl's wacky devision. Intresting little amp anyway.
I don't get the interest: proper subs have the low pass embedded.
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It's the ad lingo that's hilarious. LPFs, you know, they make your bass purer and more shocking.
Well, looks like I have developed an immunity to marketing bull, I don't even see it
.Lets say that I was myself shocked by the missed opportunity to have an HPF to "make your medium purer and more shocking".
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The LPF doesn't seem so useable with -10db at 1khz
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Wrong bandwidth is used. There's no remaining harmonics in the measurement bandwidth to show the distortion.
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Helicopter
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With the very competent outcome of P20, I suspect all ths... err, technical BS, on A30 is deliberate. The flat line is laughable, but so is the ad writing. It is like they took words from a bad romance movie and put it through Google translate hoping for the best.
I have not seen any good objective look at P20 or teardown analysis, so I have not drawn final conclusions. I just have a very good subjective experience, especially at $99 with Amazon Prime.
I can't tell if this is an ad written for the Chinese market and then just translated to English for the International market, or if it is an attempt to copy the style of a glowing Stereophile review or something like that.
Regardless, this kind of thing, i.e. all the technical and subjective exaggeration, actually puts a lot of downward price pressure on products like this in the global market. If the Chinese market is big enough, maybe it is not a problem. I know I don't mind low prices as a consumer. Sometimes the excellent products speak for themselves, but it sets low expectations for the service part of the product mix. The manual is not going to be any better than the ad. Same goes for answers to any technical questions after purchase. And these may be correlated to warranty service and other things at the end of the day.
I like the way you are calling out the nonsensical technical information. You embrace competition so fervently. Nothing could be better to drive innovation, and it shows you expect to run hard to stay at the front of the pack.
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the SA300 doesn't have a headphone out though. looks closer to an AD18 replacement to me. will be interested to see how this runs. been looking for an AD18 upgrade for a while, one that doesn't run so hot as well.
I am waiting for more info on this one too...But Im starting to think about different solution with a dedicated dac, which I can easily add to my Raspberry Pi, which already has bluetooth capability too. Still I would need to find an amplifier with good standby mode, so It wont drain much power during sleep and activate itself on signal input.
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You conveniently failed to circle the "(normal power amplifier volume)" part, which can reasonably be expected to be significantly less than maximum, especially as the majority of speakers are nominally 8R.
Helicopter
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I ordered one of these and drop shipped it to Amir, so we will get to see how it does; I did say I am not in a rush.
hawk01
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hmm, they would have made more sense if a proper bass management system was implemented much like the ole home theater avr!
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I got this amp it sounds really clean. The DAC in it is an old one that dates back to 2011 or so I'd consider using something newer for better performance
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