Message from the manufacturer: When this article was first posted it was brought to our attention. We were taken aback by the aggressive commentary on this site and it seemed that having a constructive discourse would not be possible, so we have refrained from responding until now. We are of course disappointed with the author’s measurements and a bit puzzled at how exactly he arrived at those conclusions. We have no idea where the author received this unit from, if it had been altered or damaged, and no script was provided in which we could use to accurately replicate his testing methods. In addition, the author did not reach out to us for comment or ask to provide a second unit for comparison. Our current policy is that if anyone is not satisfied with the power output for any reason we’ll promptly provide return shipping and a full refund. As of now out of all the units sold we’ve had only 3 units returned in this manner. This will be our only statement.
-Disappointing response
-If asked Amir has a policy to share whatever is needed. All it would have taken instead of no comment for so long is creating an account, and sending him a message
-Maybe I misunderstood Audioholics response, but my understanding is their results showed similiar to what Amir’s showed. In fact, on the Audioholics preview page it says this:
”Note (11/3021): Our review unit produced low power bench test results. Starke Sound accidentally sent us a unit with a 230V transformer and asked us to delay the review followup to this preview article until they can submit a new sample with the proper 120V components early next year. Stay tuned...”
Starke Sound’s new AD4.320 4-channel power amplifier ($1,399) uses a home-grown Class D amplifier module combined with an old-school linear power supply. It can be bridged for up to 650 watts!
www.audioholics.com
-There are 2 sources of measurements showing 2 review units with similar results (ASR and AH)
-My question would be, was there a bad batch of hardware that is not meeting spec or not?
-This particular site is different than other ”review” sites. Members want to see how their gear measures.. they send it (or it is drop shipped to him when the customer purchases it) and Amir publishes the measurements. Sometimes manufactures will send in their gear too, but for the most part it is members that send it in.
A proper response would be something like:
-You see review which shows your unit vastly under performing specs
-Create an account, contact Amir, get on the same page regarding measurements,
-If units are under spec, contact those customers affected, repair/replace untits
-Either ship units meeting your specs, or change the listed spec
-Don’t try to lay blame on the guy doing the measurement
This just does look good any way you look at it.