Sander deWaal wrote:

Howard Ferstler said:

I did very carefully level match the unit against a Yamaha
integrated amp. Using pink noise, you can get the levels
close enough where the four signals (one in each channel
with each amp) sounded the same. And I mean really the same,
which shows that the frequency response of each amp was
subjectively identical. The levels were then matched closely
enough to go on and do some AB comparing with music.

The result, well, the two amps sounded the same (surprise,
surprise), even when I adjusted levels so that both were
occasionally bumping up against their power limits with some
material.

Like I told you, just write tha it sounds the same as your Yamaha and
be done with it.

Still have more comparing to do. The Yamaha is a very good
amp, and so I would be suspicious if the other amp managed
to sound different.

Incidentally, if the Yamaha were distorting (as you guys
would all say such cheap amps are prone to do) it seems
rather preposterous for the other, far more expensive amp to
somehow be able to distort exactly the same. The odds of
that are pretty slim, and so the obvious alternative is to
say that both were not audibly distorting at all.

The manufacturer of said amp will thank you for your thorough review.

No telling. The amp has other attributes that some people
might consider important, particularly if they have money to
burn.

Howard Ferstler