"hoarse with no name" wrote in message
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(Mark D) wrote:
So Hoarse, If Arny did own-listen to a pair of $10K
McIntosh Monoblocks, is that supposedly a good thing, or
a bad thing?
I assumed the reader would be familiar with Arny's
oft-repeated position on expensive amps, or at least be
able to surmise his position from the way the question
was phrased.
The irony is that QSC amps aren't particularly cheap in the
cosmic scheme of things. My first 125 wpc USA 400 bought new
cost me nearly $500. I doubt that it would ABX as sounding
different from my $80 100 wpc Pioneer receiver, with all but
the most difficult speaker loads. Last time I looked, the
most expensive QSC amp was $4,000 or so, but that might not
be correct today.
The first ABX I ever did compared a $450 200 wpc amp that
was getting a lot of good press at the time, to the
amplifier section of a $300 or so 75 wpc receiver. I owned
both pieces of equipment, so the money was already spent. I
still have the amp, I don't have the receiver.
BTW Hoarse really doesn't get it. I have no problems with
people who buy expensive amps. It's their money, their audio
systems, let them do what they want to do to enjoy their
lives.
I do have problems when people claim that some magic amp
sounds "mind-blowingly better", when it doesn't. Its not the
price, its the false claim about sound quality that I
target. It's just a coincidence that most of these
supposedly magic amps cost a lot of money.