Bryston Vs Classe

If you love Dynaudio you'll IMO love Bryston much better than Classe. Brystons are more revealing and detailed. More conservatively rated even than Classe. I heard Classe 350 monos and never felt that they have a true power rating. Even less powerfull Brystons can drive much better.

Amthanh,

Rating cannot be class AB. Class AB is a type of amplifier operation that works-off certain margin of neccessary power in class A than switches to class B whenever speaker impedance falls bellow certain point as designed by circuitry to deliver more power.

Your comments about driving planars and electrostats do make sence since Classe is probably designed to tame brightness of such and that's why sound laid back with dynamic speakers.

As to the types of music I enjoyed Bryston 3b-st and to me its bested with instrumental jazz, funk, fussion, electronics. What drove me immediately off the Classe equipment is the upper-midrange emphisis or even more closely defined brightess(that can realy be in any of midrange or upper-range frequencies).

Another great option for the author I'd suggest McCormack DNA2 that is a great competitor to Bryston 4b-sst.

Ardemus,

after recalling some electronics studied years ago especially on amplification designes(hell not only at audio freequencies but at radio as well for repeaters) i started asking myself what the hell wire has to do at audio freequencies whatsoever?
And the only answer is it has to make money with tremendous profit that you can measure from 5x upto 20x.

I read AVA statement and the couple of things I didn't like about it is their specification hiding. Despite their statement, there are parameters of amplifier that only suitable for the "good sounding one" and not too long ago 20years or so manufacturers displayed all their graphs and responces to show how they stand for their product to reveal the design work. Secondly I wouldn't simply trust to the company that is producing amps in the garage lab with neither established dealer nor service network as Bryston, Audio Research, Pass Labs and even Classe. I know I'm able to fix many electronic failures but not always I'd want to waste my time on that and would prefere to have a service so I'd think before biting wire bait...

Pass labs is simple and excellent solution but very expencive even to build yourself or buy used and every expencive solution not always the best.