What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ?


Though there are perhaps better transistor amps, but Pass seems to be an excellent choice for many.
What is your experience with them, if you could elaborate ? Integrateds as well.
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Showing 1 response by emcdade

I've only heard the 30.8 and the Int-60, but they were both outclassed by Perla Audio's Signature 50 integrated with Sopra 2's.  All of them leaned toward the warm side of neutral which I like w/ the Sopra's, but you could easily tell the Perla Audio integrated had superior clarity and image specificity without sacrificing density and that relaxed liquid sound that the .8 series has.  The Perla amp also uses only 5w in standby mode and never even gets warm, let alone Class A type of hot.

I also preferred an AVM integrated (not sure the model, roughly $10k range) to the comparative Pass offerings as well.