I admit I've never had access to a $50K amplifier to look under the hood but I have looked at my share of others to know it doesn't take an experienced designer to know when you see a printed wire board attached to an amplifiers heat sink thats so thin that its warped into shape, the design goal is obviously low cost. Non-labeled components are always suspicious to me.
As I said earlier I compared the XPA-2 to my equally priced and powered Hypex nCore mono blocks which bettered them handily throughout the bandwidth. The XPA's exaggerated and much less defined bass and congestion when pushed left me questioning the companies rated output. With less revealing speakers results may vary greatly and may be acceptable for some.
Is there a qualification to become an audiophile? If one spends ten cents more on anything that may sound better, then he/she is in the mob with the rest of us, period.
The point of forums and threads like this is to share experiences, not to hold back information one may be privy to and then criticize some poor chump who felt so strongly about an expensive product or simply got sold, is hardly comical just truly lame.
I stand by my experience and have no qualms about sharing my impressions, after all I paid for the inconvenience. The great majority of manufactures who provide inexpensive good preforming audio products are not so ashamed of their manufacturing as to decline discussing their process under the guise of, "we do not share such information with the general public or our customers for a multitude of reasons. Sorry."
As I said earlier I compared the XPA-2 to my equally priced and powered Hypex nCore mono blocks which bettered them handily throughout the bandwidth. The XPA's exaggerated and much less defined bass and congestion when pushed left me questioning the companies rated output. With less revealing speakers results may vary greatly and may be acceptable for some.
Is there a qualification to become an audiophile? If one spends ten cents more on anything that may sound better, then he/she is in the mob with the rest of us, period.
The point of forums and threads like this is to share experiences, not to hold back information one may be privy to and then criticize some poor chump who felt so strongly about an expensive product or simply got sold, is hardly comical just truly lame.
I stand by my experience and have no qualms about sharing my impressions, after all I paid for the inconvenience. The great majority of manufactures who provide inexpensive good preforming audio products are not so ashamed of their manufacturing as to decline discussing their process under the guise of, "we do not share such information with the general public or our customers for a multitude of reasons. Sorry."