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You are right, and here is a perfect example




I was chewed out Royally in English class at a ritzy New England Prep School circa 1969 when the English teacher realized that what I was staring intently at on my desk as he lectured was an article in POPULAR ELECTRONICS about the new JBL LE8T passive radiator.

A couple of weeks ago, talk about teleportation and science fiction, my friends at Steinway made the public debut of a real-time remote piano performance system, which must be seen to be believed.

But that's not the example I refer to in the subject line.

Some time ago I was asked to specify the office/desktop stereo systems for the top executives at Steinway. I covered that in my blog, years ago. I chose Parasound's Zamp v.3. Very nice linear class A/B sound for the money, and bombproof.

Recently, someone from a major loudspeaker and driver company told me I had to check out Hypex's amp boards. I eventually got OEM status with Hypex and bought a board from them and a case with all the connectors kit from Ghent Audio in China.

There was an error not of Ghent's fault, which took some degree of trouble shooting, but I eventually tracked down that the illuminated switch in the IEC Power Inlet Module had been put in upside down.

Once I got the Hypex amp running, I just had to call one of my most astute audio buddies. I could not believe how good it sounded--was this just Confirmation Bias? I had in essence been teleported back 50 years and I had assembled this kit, so it must sound good?

My friend confirmed that the Hypex did not have a shred of "digital" in its sound. He was as surprised as I was.

So now, I am salivating about using Hypex's FA123 DSP + 3 channels of amplification modules in my personal Dream Loudspeaker project.

THESE are the days, my friend (cue up that song).

jm



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