Re: How much do HiFi amps really differ?

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Yes. There is an upper limit on the price it is worth paying for an
amplifier - probably around $500.

Anything selling at a higher price probably sells in too small a volume
to cover the cost of getting a good designer to design it right in the
first place, let alone to cover the rather higher cost of testing it
for the various forms of distortion once it has been built.

The only electronic engineer I ever knew who ever looked at a
significant series of high priced amplifiers - he wanted something to
drive his Quad electrostatic speakers, and the local dealers lent him a
lot of gear over the years - found most of them full of trivial
electronic errors.

When I last looked, Ralph was a technical director at FEI, and I've no
more reason to doubt his competence now than I had when I was working
for him back in 1984.


Something worth reading as usual from Mr. Sloman.


Thanks for the input!



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