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Re: I just bought a Panasonic XR-45 for a hundred bucks.

Yeah well they are very good. However depending on your speakers they do lose out to tube amps in the midrange. Those with revealing speakers will find the sound a bit too cold and thin at least that is from my listenings. I could live with it if I hadn't heard tubes in my system. I won't get into the "but it sounds like a tube amp to my ears" because it doesn't. There is a smoothness that I would associate with valves but these digital amps so far just don't have that robust flavor in the mid range. They are 99% true to the recording though which should appease those types of audiophiles.


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