Robin Bowes;170612 Wrote: > opaqueice wrote: > > Pat Farrell;170266 Wrote: > >> And you call yourself an audiophile? > >> Such * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy>*heresy. > >> > > > > It's kind of fun, being a heretic... here are two (of an infinite > > number available) pieces of actual evidence (!!) to support my > > heresy: > > > > http://www.matrixhifi.com/contenedor_ppec_eng.htm > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/rec.audio.opinion/browse_frm/thread/664b8681ab141263/3fd91bcb6a1522a0?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsunshine%2Bstereo%2Byamaha%2Babx%2Bnousaine%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D501fl6%2524ac3%2540oxy.rust.net%26rnum%3D1#3fd91bcb6a1522a0 > > While I don't entirely disagree with you (I use Rotel RB-850 power > amps, > bought s/h from eBay for peanuts), I don't think an article and a > mailing list thread taken from the Internet constitutes particularly > reliable evidence. > > My own feeling is that the "sweet spot" where the law of diminishing > returns kicks in is particularly low down the price/performance curve > for amplifiers and is particularly shallow after that point (i.e. the > price increases quickly, the performance doesn't.) > > R.
I tried to stick to used 100w amps that were 1-2k new, have a solid track record in the field, etc. I'd put my personal cutoff of where value for money drops off in that range new (since I like some power for headroom). The advent of good class d amps is going to lower this for me to something like 1k-1.5 or less soon, I'd guess. YMMV, of course. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31556 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
