+1 ...... I think his cost complaints are limited to his pocket book constraints not the quality of the unit. In fact most of his comments appear to be based on his limited budget. Sony must not think much of his review skills or they would have offered to loan him review units.
Well OK the other hand Patron send him stuffs, do Sony even send Demo to anyone? I thought only dealers got them.
About the review itself, well~
He's not really iffed about the build, he loves it for its simplicity actually, what it can do, plugging 5 headphones at the same time, the remote, etc.
He's just not too cuffed with how underpowered he feels it is for the weight and heat it give off.
He's not really one to use IEM on desktop, and his lightest to drive Fullsize is the AD2000X. Heck he even commented, "plug in a Liquid spark to its RCA out and compare the A/B amp power on it".
For its sound. He ain't wowed by it, "it's. . Good", preferred his own THX789 to it.
DSEEHX, he said " try it out, on off for a couple hours, if you like the change, leave it on, if not, off", he much prefer a self adjustable EQ with clear technical term than the random DSP name like "string", or "acoustic" etc (like I also wonder what the heck does that naming mean, lol)
Well I know TA's Amp power is its Achilles heel, so I guess it's just not for him in the first place.
Overall I think he gave it quite a fair shake, he also shows basically all the quirk the amp has, in all its built, menu and settings.
Not that I'm really trying to shamelessly defend him, it's just I don't really see that vudeo has much of a bias, just a reviewer giving his opinion.
It's not even a bashing video, he snark at Chord's offerings much, much harder (poor Mojo and Qutest...)