JeremyFife
Major Contributor
Many thanks for another interesting review.
Surprisingly hard to vote - illustrating how pointless it is to try to boil a review down to a single measure!
Looks like a very nice Amp indeed. Perhaps having the additional features of DAC and phono (however niche) measured would help describe the full capabilities of this as an Integrated amp, rather than just the power amp section.
Are we spoiled / expectations skewed by very high SINAD figures now?
Is that giving us an unrealistic view of what an amplifier should do? This has power, it's pretty much load and frequency independent (within practical limits), better than audible dynamic range and it looks awesome. Minor question over crosstalk.
The DAS is probably transparent, hopefully the headphone stage is good and the phono stage is probably fine too. That's a lot
It's a tried and tested design too, reliability is likely to be good
What am I trying to say? I voted "fair", it's probably much better than that.
Surprisingly hard to vote - illustrating how pointless it is to try to boil a review down to a single measure!
Looks like a very nice Amp indeed. Perhaps having the additional features of DAC and phono (however niche) measured would help describe the full capabilities of this as an Integrated amp, rather than just the power amp section.
Are we spoiled / expectations skewed by very high SINAD figures now?
Is that giving us an unrealistic view of what an amplifier should do? This has power, it's pretty much load and frequency independent (within practical limits), better than audible dynamic range and it looks awesome. Minor question over crosstalk.
The DAS is probably transparent, hopefully the headphone stage is good and the phono stage is probably fine too. That's a lot
It's a tried and tested design too, reliability is likely to be good
What am I trying to say? I voted "fair", it's probably much better than that.