Very nice place to live I'd say
Service Client 10 Marcelin Berthelot, 33270 Floirac (Bordeaux / FRANCE)
Open till 5PM )
Very nice place to live I'd say
Service Client 10 Marcelin Berthelot, 33270 Floirac (Bordeaux / FRANCE)
Open till 5PM )
Yes, they seem very good and very quick in responding to changes.
As for the 'Made in France', it's an exceedingly common practice. Don't get me started on 'Made in Italy' products!
To me I believe they lack a good marketing eye: if they got a better looking enclosure and added volume and/or preamp board they could have easily justified the price tag.
But I don't think those are things to really complain about.
I agree that after thinking a bit the price does not sound outrageous.With shipping and taxes etc. of parts from different vendors I still don't see how I could make this much cheaper than audiophonics is offering.
I guess it all comes down to how much you want to spend on the case, but even a basic drilled HIFI2000 case can be around 80-120 + shipping.
I agree that after thinking a bit the price does not sound outrageous.
But the feeling of 'too much' is still there, especially considering that the USD109 price of the module itself was considered high in the first place (read the initial comments to Amir's review).
Now let's do a bit of arithmetic:
Prices on their website include margin. So summing up the price for the parts will have a margin built in.
Adding a price for assembly and an 'add on' for warranty should give you a reasonable price.
Module 3255 150eur (up from a few days ago: it's the market baby!)
Morsun Power Supply 100Eur
Interconnects+Case 100Eur? (to me its seems a bit much: the case is very unattractive to me)
So if my guess about case and connectors is roughly correct, it means work and 'warranty' comes to about Eur150.
Not great but not bad either.
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I don't think ~€100.00 is unreasonable for an assembled product.
You will have to factor in a few more euros for wire and connectors and based on previous projects this would take me several hours to assemble. Marking out and drilling all the necessary holes for the switches and sockets, etc. can be quite time consuming.
if they embellished the offer with volume control/preamp- and how about a remote control at the same time?Nice to see a complete amplifier offer.
I am not attracted to it due to the price: a few days back the board was priced at USD109!
Probably I would feel differently if they embellished the offer with volume control/preamp as @natna mentioned.
It makes me more willing to build my own.
However, I think the price is justified considering the high demand they are anticipating after the great reviews of ASR.
Also, I think they believe the demand will be short-lived as Fosi/Aiyima and possibly Topping will follow with their version: I am not an engineer but I don't think that the PSFB design will be hard to replicate.
It might be a good idea to wait and see if competition will drive prices down.
Apollon is from Slovenia.But I have to say another French company caught my eye and is also doing 'basic no frills' class D amplifiers: Apollon Audio
They seem tough competitor and their products seem superb.
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I don't think ~€100.00 is unreasonable for an assembled product.
You will have to factor in a few more euros for wire and connectors and based on previous projects this would take me several hours to assemble. Marking out and drilling all the necessary holes for the switches and sockets, etc. can be quite time consuming.
Oh sorry, I was sure they were a French company.Apollon is from Slovenia.
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..another French company ...