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.
inna

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What are the weak points of Pass amps


Earlier Nelson Pass Amps, particular Threshold used Bi-Polar output stages that had far higher current ability, which allowed them to drive lower impedance speakers without strain or current limiting like todays Pass Labs Mosfet output stage ones can.
But Mosfets are more "bomb proof" than Bi-Polars, if the owner did something stupid and momentarily shorted the output or overloaded the input.

Cheers George