63K vs 2k.
Clone DarTZeel amps?
Has anyone actually heard or bought a Chinese so called clone DarTZeel NHB 108 or the higher powered NHB 268? I would be interested to hear views re SQ but only from those who have actually heard them.
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I have an NHB-108 clone (D5 Pro) powering a pair of Joseph Audio Perspective 2's and Fischer & Fischer 370's. Simply put I love it, especially considering the price. I talk about the performance briefly here. There's another Youtuber, Hifi Zone, who opens it up and talks about the components inside. |
@bigtwin I'm well aware of the price differential but that was not the question. While it might be interesting to hear from someone who paid the price for the real thing and then compared it to the clone I think that anyone who had bought the real amp would be disinterested in comparing the two - just in case. |
If you look at the pictures of the inside of the clone VS the real deal, you will see why one sells for 2K and the real one sells for many many thousands more. I personally had terrible luck with a Yaquin hybrid integrated amp. It caught fire the first day just after a few hours of run in and very lucky my house didn’t burn down. Lesson learned, cheap Chinese junk can’t be trusted. |
The Chinese are capable of making outstanding quality knockoffs. You can buy Birkin bags even a LVMH investigator isn’t sure it’s a fake. But they cost several hundred dollars, not $40. The fake Dartzeel you’re looking at is the audio equivalent of a $40 Birkin bag. It’s going to look and sound like a generic $800 AliExpress amp, albeit one that looks like a Dartzeel when seen through the window in Google Maps. A bit-perfect Dartzeel clone, if such a thing existed, would cost $15,000, not $2,000. |