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Originally Posted by RnB180
You my be correct, havent kept up with budget components for a couple of years. I thought the main advantage of digital amplification was the temperature. Since I received my set up all equipment I looked at are not sold in big chain stores. I restrict my store selection to dedicated home theater shops
looking at NAD, Marantz, Rotel, Arcam, and McIntosh..
Some of you guys are comparing this panny to 4 digit price receivers? what receivers are you comparing them too? Thats a VERY bold statement.
I seriously doubt a $300 panny will hold up to a $1300 Rotel. Thats just too good to be true, what speakers are you comaring them too? because kilo buck receivers and amps can drive Martin Logans and I seriously doubt the panny can.
I know that the brands Im stating are far out of his budget, but you shouldnt be compairng a $300 surround receiver to a $1000 receiver or pre amp amp combo.
once again what kind of speakers are you listening to? I want to check out this panny.
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No, I'm saying these Pannies have replaced many 5 digit price amp/preamp combo. If treatred right (with expensive transports, cables and power conditioning) I'm sure they could leave a $1300 Rotel receiver in the dust. I don't claim to have a killer system, simply an XR-SA25 (not the highest end Panasonic digital amp, and it's "last year's" model of that) + PSB 2B speakers. It does a great job, but I've heard these amps in a couple systems that would make a $1300 amp look out of place as way too cheap. This thing, for the right speakers (Von Schweikert, Vandersteen, Dynaudio, Magnepan, VMPS, and more) and the right associated equipment, can play at a ridiculously high level for it's price, appearance, build quality, etc.. The core technology is just that far ahead of the times.
And again, the amp is purely digital. The output to the speaker is digital, it's just such high frequency that it sounds analog to us (a good analogy is a TV or computer monitor, it flashes many times per second, but it's fast enough that it still looks like a solid image to us - cameras can see otherwise however). The process is fairly complicated, however the page I used to link everyone to that explained it very well in plain english, is gone now
If someone can find an appropriate tutorial please link it! I barely understand it myself, I'm certainly unqualified to explain it to others.
Please, go read up on AudioAsylum.com about these amps, that's the best place for high end speaker audio that I've found. There are many stories of people replacing $20,000 worth of tube gear for these amps. Strange, but true. This is one of those "Optimus 3400 / Koss KSC-35" type of thing - the manufacturer I'm sure had no idea their product sounded so good, but audiophiles have found these flukes of nature. The good thing however, is that the technology that powers the Panasonic digital amps is here to stay, not a random combination of budget parts that happens to sound good!
-dd3mon
