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Re: ".... I would buy on specifications alone if the price were right and I needed one." ...

Amplifiers don't make any sound, speakers do. Listening to an good amplifier connected to a bad speaker should sound bad. The amplifier reveals the speaker for what it really is no matter how hightly touted or how expensive, trash. It reveals its countless shortcomings including its shrillness and lack of bass. It reveals its inability to radiate sound the way musical instruments do. It reveals phonograph cartridges with high frequency resonant peaks. Crappy amplifiers with their distorting rolled off irregular frequency responses from inefficient non linear output transformers can hide all of this. The sound that comes out of speakers connected to these dinoasaurs may be pleasing to audiophiles but it has nothing to do with music. And as bad as they are when you first turn them on, they only continue to get worse and worse as the enormous heat they generate slowly destroys the tubes and everything else around them.


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