Ribbon cable inside amplifiers

@audphile1 my pass is about 3 yrs old.  It was a demo, but brand new condition.  I miss Reno Hi Fi. It took about a week to break in and it takes an hour to fully warm up.  I think it has a very smooth, accurate, neutral and nice bass.  I am set, my last amp.

I ran XP12 and XP22 with XA30.8 and X260.8. Good synergy. Recently compared XP22 and Audio Research Ref6. The ARC preamp is a good companion to Pass amp, but you’re sticking with solid state…so Pass is a good choice. 

Thanks…my wife can’t handle messing with tubes…I can’t go wrong with the Pass Preamps…This Primaluna preamp with all Mullard tubes from the 1960s is sounding good…anyone who likes Primaluna will get some awesome tubes..I have a matched set of 8 EL34 Mullards from the 1960s for the amp that came from Andy at vintage tube service…

@daledeee1 yup about an hour to come to temperature and start to really sing but even cold my X260.8 monos sound great.

If you look at the inside of any piece of audiophile electronics it will not have the same kind of expensive wiring most people use for AC cables or speaker cables. Why?

Not so with Pass Labs or Audio Research Gear.  My Pass Labs X350 Amp that I bought in 2002 was wired internally with Monster Cable.  I’m sure their newer amps have equivalent or better.

ARC started using Litz wire internally decades ago.  I rewired my ARC SP-6b with Litz wire back in the late 1980s along with better caps, resistors and a volume pot comparable to the newer ARC gear at the time.