How to Determine Good from Great Amplifier Performance

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  @1997inspire · 4 years ago

  Excellent video. Some of the worst values are found in audio equipment . Some less than  honest manufactures pass off poor equipment by hiding behind hype, cosmetics and the brainwashing  that high price is inherently better.

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  @bommareddybrijendrareddy9302 · 1 year ago

  Remember Gene - This is truly high quality payable educational information kept available for us audiophiles for free of cost among many other of your videos over the years. This should be highly valued. Kudos sir.

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  @keepingupwiththejones2933 · 4 years ago

  Nice to hear Gene speak highly of my Monolith 11X Amplifier.  I have been so amazed by its performance.

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  @neilford99 · 1 year ago

  This is an excellent video. Thanks. You make a really good point about measurements and randomized blinded testing.  the holy grail is to find a suit of tests that correlate reasonably with controlled listening tests.

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  @stopthefomo · 4 years ago (edited)

  Great intro with all the necessary caveats  out of the way. Sometimes exceptional engineering is not audible unless pushed by certain speaker loads or high levels or low frequency content or “perfectly transparent speakers”. For my needs I’m all over the Benchmark AHB2 amp - the reigning champ at ASR

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  @HawkFest · 3 years ago (edited)

  One of the best videos covering such topic that I've seen on Youtube (until now, actually the best), bravo and thanks a lot! Now I feel enlighten 😁, as much as "empowered" (pun intended) for my current shopping trek for an amp and preamp. One comment: if we talk about music instrument amp (especially electric guitar), some will seek for those ugly FFTs as a matter of "sound style"; it'd be a very specialized amp in that sense, however, pedals or FX box can do the same without such FFT/THD unfriendly amp... But that's not the context this clip would be targeting.

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  @BenjiGator23 · 4 years ago

  Great video Gene. I’ve been very pleased with my 3 channel Monolith amp driving my front stage.

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  @RegondiMusic · 4 years ago

  I will listen to this review a couple of time before I buy a Monolith! : )

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  @rudyhenriquez7877 · 4 years ago

  Thanks for all your work, your my go to for the real deal!

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  @mrpmj00 · 2 years ago

  I ripped the tendons in my shoulder rotator cup, so I&apos;m not getting any amp heavier than 50 lbs. <br> <br>This week, a new amplifier NAD C298 at 185 wpc and 25 lbs (similar to NAD M23, 200 wpc) will replace my Parasound 2125v2 at 150 wpc (love it but I&apos;ll repurpose it to power my surround L/R channels).<br><br>Apple Music lossless

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  @droidzhunterz6861 · 4 years ago

  I would love to see those kind of test be done for the Emotiva XPA Gen 3 amps just to see where the real &quot;value&quot; is

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  @umbrollo · 2 years ago

  I love this channel so much

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