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 samzx12

Pass are great amps in the right system or personal tastes. I jumped on the bandwagon several months ago and purchased a X150.8. My 1st impressions were, powerful,  dynamic,  very nice looking amp, clean crisp sound but lacked in midrange richness. I changed tubes in my preamp to help with some midrange energy I was experiencing even with Sonus Faber Olympica iii.  It helped but overall I couldn't warm up to the amp. Hated to sell and wanted to like this amp but just couldn't get it to work in my system.  YMMV. Overall it's a very good amp and compared to pricier products it's a no brainer. Extremely well built and affordable.