Inexperienced SINAD fanboys who have no practical experience of what is audible and are impressed by inaudibly low distortion numbers and ignore things that matter much more for real daily usage like reliability, serviceability, customer support, user interface, internal PSU etc.Two of my least favorite things in an amplifier combined: monoblock and external PSU
And it barely has enough power to drive some bookshelves. Well, one. Not exactly sure who this product is aimed at.
The power button starts to blink a code and amp is shut down. You have to power the unit down and power it back up to recover.
I'll bet more than a few of us have spent $600 or more for an amplifier that when all was said and done only effectively put out 50 watts or less. And at the time we may have even thought that the amp delivered nirvana.
For a desktop use where probably minor EQ will be needed for RC it should be very-very nice and can relieve people who can't stand hiss.When I started out in hifi, this would havd been considered a powerful amp. Now it's the same form factor as the matching desktop DAC and headphone amp.
I don't. I did want to listen to it and might do that tomorrow and report back if that happens with my Salon 2 speakers.Do you have a sense of how quickly it would go into protection in a real-world scenario?
No, it is their own module they have developed (discrete).Thanks for review. Does small heatsink suggest parallel chip based amp ?
You can see the SINAD at all power levels in this sweep:Perhaps higher wattage and lower load impedance for Sinad chart can give us better scope?
More power can be extracted by using finer steps in the input sweep voltage prior to protection circuit shutting down. So I suspect with out playing around you may be able to get there.The protection circuit is too aggressive for my liking, they can't even reach the 100w stated on the spec sheet.
I think here it is used to keep the package and hence shipping costs low as opposed to any benefit with respect to crosstalk. It also allows the power supply to be smaller than what you would need for stereo amp, i.e. two smaller power supplies instead of a giant one that may not even be available.Are monoblocks a fad?