SONCOZ SGP1 Stereo Amplifier Review

[EJ3]

It does feel like there are stronger comments about the aesthetics versus the performance of this device. Strange for ASR.

I liked the general aesthetics (yeah, many issues with the extra, un-necessary & useless chicken scratch on the meters (not so much about the logo on them).
But was questioning the reliability from the moment I saw it.
My initial reaction was "It's too good looking & initially measures too well" to be true long term for a relatively unknown company.
Unfortunately, my gut reaction seems to have been correct.

 

[EJ3]

Benchmark's is not class AB, is it? It's some variation on class H IIRC. Eleventh isn't in the top 10. ;-)

Postscript: I guess Benchmark does use bipolar AB output stage. It must have been the unique way of powering the rails I remembered. More research to be done.

Class G & H are control variations of Class AB.