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The "PASS" logo might as well accounts for $3,600 of the price tag.
As in the Tom Waits song Step Right Up, "the quality goes in, when the name goes on."
The "PASS" logo might as well accounts for $3,600 of the price tag.
He sold it before I did the review. Indeed that was the reason I tested it now as the buyer has been waiting for it.But now he has to sell it knowing it's junk; a heavy price to pay on his conscious.
please show some respect folks, 1 out of 100 products there might be some bad design overall, can't hurt the reputation
For the "mercy shot?Oh oh .... subjectivist Passists are going to be pissed off!
These phones are best for it
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Respect what?please show some respect folks
The other Pass amp tested at ASR ended up at the end of the wrong end of the power amplifier charts, with quite a margin! I guess that is an achievement of sorts?1 out of 100 products there might be some bad design overall, can't hurt the reputation
The amp under test reportedly was not designed by Nelson Pass but rather by another Pass Labs employee, as mentioned earlier in the threadNelson Pass is one of the good guys in audio - he freely shares many of his recent designs over on DIYaudio.com - and knows perfectly well what he is doiing. He can design low distortion amps with the best of them - see tests of his old Threshold amps - but chooses not to do so. This amp is intentionally designed with low/no feedback. Nelson Pass has stated that he prefers the way low/no feedback amps sound. Clearly many audiophiles agree with his philosophy for the company is, as far as one can tell, quite successful.
Lol. This thing would barely make that whisper.@amirm so you don't use Stealth anymore?
Weird, mine makes the Stealth louder than I can handle even with the grooviest of tunes.Lol. This thing would barely make that whisper.
. . . . And a lot of people would have gone out of business. There is a long feeding chain attached to every expensive product.If tests like this had been available for a long time a lot of people would have saved a lot of money.
Ha, at least it would then actually be a genuinely good product! (Well, not in terms of price, but why be too serious!)You do have to wonder, had someone stuck the guts of a JDS Atom into that case, what they would have said. My guess is, exactly the same!
lolYou should take the polls away, im sure 90% of people voting dont have any experience with this amplifier or most of the polled items.
I would really like Amirm to try the Riviera which in my parts is considered a must. https://www.rivieralabs.com/prodotti/elettroniche/Lots of money, lots of noise. How could you not isolate the circuits from PS noise, in consideration of the large volume of the case? No balanced inputs? A ridiculous locking headphone receptacle, barely adequate power, poor ribbon-cable dressing complete the offer for the anxious “almost-wealthy” crowd of non-cognoscenti. At a 20 times lower price, the Topping L30 II incinerates this bloated sub-spec product to the dust-bin of history.
Thank you Amir for an impeccable review! To the audio electronic engineers of America: it is time to wake-up and return to the drawing board and the 101 Class of contemporary high performance Audio design and manufacturing.
lol!He sold it before I did the review. Indeed that was the reason I tested it now as the buyer has been waiting for it.