Dan D'Agostino Helius dual monoblocks, 1500w @ 8ohms

The arc welding reference is getting pretty old and stale...

What's really interesting is that a friend of ours is good friends with Dan's daughter. She has no clue about fine audio and when she mentioned the name I asked about his background. She said it was "something like that". I wonder if I could arrange a private listening session? (in my dreams)

Dan D'Agostino is a great amp designer no doubt, however, some of his later work at Krell is total crap, The Showcase HT processor comes to mind along with the KAV series with insufficient cooling.  The  KAV-250a, KAV-250a/3, KAV-500i and KAV-1500 were recently recalled for this problem.

That’s an old issue, nearly 10 years old. ’Recently recalled’, on a 10 year old design.

Eg, that would never really happen in most other consumer industries - that would be end of life stuff that is expected.

We know that we expect longer lifespans out of audio gear, though. We hope for 10 year old audio gear to be the equivalent of maybe mid 30’s age (compared to human lifespans). We’ve come to expect and demand it as part of the high end package..

Overstating it in the negative is not the best thing to be doing....(not that I need to be here defending anything -just sayin’, kinda thing. More like playing the other side of the reasoned debate table).

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So far there are no photos of this amplifier anywhere. 
It doesn't exist.  It is a myth.
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