Dear Snickelfritz,I have to agree that generally speaking
a higher price tag will insure a heavier box and a possibly
a more pleasing exterior appearance.Price and weight
however are completely unrelated to the accuracy of reproduction the amplifier can deliver.This is perhaps
one of the few hobbies where spending more money will not automatically guarantee a superior end result.What we are attempting to purchase is someones intelligence applied to solving problems related to successfully reproducing music accurately in our listening room.By spending more money
on a prettier and heavier box we may have accomplished nothing more than to line the pockets of someone smart enough to build the aforementioned box and convince us we need it. There are a limited number of geniuses in the world and all of them cannot be working in this field.The trick is to find one with some insight into the problem.
The urge to spend more money to insure a more satisfactory
outcome isn't to hard to understand it usually works.
Spend enough money and you can graduate from a leaky rowboat
to a X millon dollar carbon-fiber hulled racing yacht.
In this hobby money doesn't equal brains it usually means
you helped pay for an expensive marketing campaign in Stereophile or Absolute Sound.
Regarding Slam or dynamic contrast, a lower power supply
impedence is a key component in helping an amp to deliver
more accurate waveform reproduction at all frequencies but
taken by itself is no guarantee of anything.An amplifier
is the sum of its parts.Ignoring slewrate,settling time,and
symmetry when discussing amplifier design will lead to false conclusions. I hope this post will help clarify certain aspects of this discussion.Happy listening,_scotty_
a higher price tag will insure a heavier box and a possibly
a more pleasing exterior appearance.Price and weight
however are completely unrelated to the accuracy of reproduction the amplifier can deliver.This is perhaps
one of the few hobbies where spending more money will not automatically guarantee a superior end result.What we are attempting to purchase is someones intelligence applied to solving problems related to successfully reproducing music accurately in our listening room.By spending more money
on a prettier and heavier box we may have accomplished nothing more than to line the pockets of someone smart enough to build the aforementioned box and convince us we need it. There are a limited number of geniuses in the world and all of them cannot be working in this field.The trick is to find one with some insight into the problem.
The urge to spend more money to insure a more satisfactory
outcome isn't to hard to understand it usually works.
Spend enough money and you can graduate from a leaky rowboat
to a X millon dollar carbon-fiber hulled racing yacht.
In this hobby money doesn't equal brains it usually means
you helped pay for an expensive marketing campaign in Stereophile or Absolute Sound.
Regarding Slam or dynamic contrast, a lower power supply
impedence is a key component in helping an amp to deliver
more accurate waveform reproduction at all frequencies but
taken by itself is no guarantee of anything.An amplifier
is the sum of its parts.Ignoring slewrate,settling time,and
symmetry when discussing amplifier design will lead to false conclusions. I hope this post will help clarify certain aspects of this discussion.Happy listening,_scotty_