Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail!

Ime, the higher you go up in price doesn't necessarily guarantee that you could experience the above mentioned. It seems to come down to the nitty gritty of the circuits under consideration, i.e., the black art of power delivery and analog circuit design.

@deep_333 High end audio, like many high end products, is driven by intention rather than cost. So you can run into less expensive gear that easily seems to outperform equipment that cost several times more. This can happen because the less expensive gear is built to a price formula rather than what the market will bear.

There are now class D amps  that are exactly that- smooth, detailed and involving- that can easily outperform (and sound better than) amps that cost quite a lot more. Of course, not all class D amps sound the same just as not all class A amps sound the same so you should not be dissuaded if the particular class D amp you encountered didn't seem to bring home the bacon.

I own 6 Amps from $700 to 20K and the most detailed AND Musical is the new NP-1 from Frank Van Alstine....It's magic .

The Musical Fidelity A1 is not a high resolution amp.Pleasant but relatively low resolution.I own one.It has the least resolution of all the amps I own.

You can buy Chinese copies of the FM Acoustic FM 300A amplifiers for about US $450.They are both high resolution and musical.Not quite as high resolution as my Bakoon but pretty close .The real FM 300A costs about $30,000.The copies are claimed to be 99% clones.

You can still buy Bakoon amplifiers.At least in Japan and Australia.Bakoon is the real thing made by the designers in Japan.Enleum and Bakoon Korea are more just upselling /fancy boxing/alternative marketing enterprises based on the Bakoon Japan designs.I think the Japanese ones are much better value.