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Re: I beg to disagree!!!

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I appreciate hearing your view on the pro audio products. Yet, it is my experience that the home audio market, even the esoteric high-end home audio market, is where the almighty dollar speaks. Most home companies are in a "keeping up with the Jones'" approach to new model development. In contrast, most pro audio companies will not latch onto a new technology until after it is tried and true. In fact, most pro audio companies produce big, bulky metal boxes full of electronics that are if anything a step behind the current technology out there. My main experience is in comparing home audio amps with pro audio amps. Sure, the pro audio companies also beta match their transistors (in the higher end lines.) Pro audio companies also, for the most part, use many more output devices per channel, use larger, grossly oversized power transformers, provide more filter capacitance per channel, and have higher actual real-world damping factors. I agree that you only get what you pay for, but I also believe there should be a cap on what one would rationally spend for any given consumer electronic product. I am also only speaking on behalf of solid state amps, as I'm quite sure you are too. Try a BGW professional amplifier; try a Crown Audio Studio Reference amplifier. If you believe that your home gear is producing a sweet sound in contrast to "crass" stuff from the high end pro equipment, then I strongly believe either 1.) (in my opinion) you're delusionally happy with your home gear and the sonic effect of it is merely psychological or 2.) You like the home gear that you're used to because it actually is adding something to the original signal that the pro gear isn't. A true amp will be as revealing as possible, and perhaps your home gear isn't picking out all the details. I will play devil's advocate however and agree that there is home gear that sounds just as clean and sweet as pro gear. My caveat is that home gear lags behind pro gear in these respects: poor performance with varying load impedance, poor thermal management capabilities, poor reliability over the long haul (10+ years), poor realistic damping of large subwoofers, low relative power output, and absolutely terrible price:performance ratio. Since the home gear is sub par to the pro gear on at least those critical areas, then the claim of highest performance at any cost is shot down instantly. Maybe you might be unfamiliar with the law of diminishing returns. If a $2,000 amplifier gets you so close to the sonic bliss you desire, and provide other things much better in the process, then why pay up $75,000 for the ultimate "I am better than you" posh home brand just to get that tiniest extra bit of bliss? No thank you, I'll take a top of the line amplifier, and 2 new BMWs -- one for daily driver and one for the track. One last thing, you mentioned discos and theatres. Add to that list even worse sounding venues like pro sports arenas (especially basketball) and airport P.A. systems. Do you realize that you are hearing more sonic defects from the speaker systems attached to those amps, than from the amps driving them? I hope you do. FYI the ONLY fair way to judge a pro amp is to bench it alongside your other amp(s) in your home, hooked to your favorite home reference speakers.

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