ayang02
500+ Head-Fier
One of the best power supplies ever with class a design... this is as good as it gets.
Besides isnt this thx tech use switched power supplies only? In mine opinion everything with switched power supplies sound lifeless...
Maybe gsx mk2 with same power supply could eclipse it, but it seems headamp wont update mk2.
One thing i dont like that they dont use atleast 128 step wolume pots.
The THX 789 and Monoprice THX 887 both use a power brick/switching power supply but the SMSL SP200 doesn't. As far as I can tell, these 3 THX amps sound really similar to one another based on the impressions I read. One advantage of the THX 789 is that it doesn't run hot, not even warm after using it for hours, probably due to using an external power supply.
There is also the Benchmark HPA4 that uses THX 888 and is probably the best THX amp out there.
I am also interested if anyone here has compared the HPA4 vs the GS-X mini.