![]() If measuring a DIY Amp against an OEM would burn too many bridges for Stereophile then I think another alternative would be to put the Merrill Audio Veritas on the test bench instead as it should be just as impressive in terms of measured performance.Content and analysis made possible thanks to support from, and supporters. Maybe the reviewer could consider one of the Hypex units in his search for a replacement amp which meets his needs. Both units would fit within the criteria of being light weight, quite powerful and fairly inexpensive. I dont think Stereophile would ever measure a Hypex NC400 amp given its DIY status but it would be very interesting to see a comparison of this benchmark unit which appears to be well liked by the reviewer up against the Hypex offering. There are many folks who claim that Class D amps sound very flat and lifeless (I don’t agree) but is this claim due to the use of an SMPS or more to do with how a Class D amp works compared to their Class A/B brothers? Or more appropriately, how little sound signature each of the two amps impose on the original source material. Given that both units use an SMPS power supply I wonder how different the two units would sound from one another. To John Atkinson you cant measure AES48 compliant device's noise by shorting it to the GND you will pickup noise from the enclosure, you need to short out the signal wires or put a resistor between them.Īs a current owner of a few DIY Hypex NC400 amplifiers I see some of the measurements of this Benchmark amp looking very similar to what has been seen in the Hypex amp/smps modules in terms of low distortion figures. This amp is designed to show good THD+N on the AP test you can't correlate this measurements to the other amps tests in stereophile because the amp has no gain it puts AP generator/analyser in the low distortion field if you loopback AP2 you will see that from 10-500mvRMS has 0.015-0.0004 THD+N if you add 23db gain to that line the amp that has no distorion has to have THDvsPower graph line from 0.003-0.0003 downward slope strait line from 100mW to 30Watts then flatten's out toward 100 Watt on 80kHz bandwidth, if put the analyser in 20kHz bandwidth the line will be lower but still the same shape like thisĪs is measured on a class a amp with lower distortion then AHB2 and when you crank the volume control on the pre-amp to compensate for the low gain you will amplify the noise of the DAC or Phono-pre up to levels of the other amps so low noise in the AHB2 is just red herring if you lower the designed gain of any amp the noise gets lower as well. AC: Kubala-Sosna Emotion.Īccessories: Brickwall Series-Mode 8R15AUD surge suppressor. Kalman Rubinson ![]() Speaker: Kubala-Sosna Anticipation & Fascination. ![]() Preamplification: Marantz AV8801 preamplifier-processor.Ĭables: Interconnect: AudioQuest Vodka (HDMI), Kubala-Sosna Anticipation (RCA) & Fascination (XLR). AC: AudioQuest NRG-10, JPS Aluminata.Īccessories: Environmental Potentials EP-2450 power conditioner, CyberPower 850PFCLCD AC filter (supplied with Baetis server).ĭigital Sources: Oppo Digital BDP-103 universal BD player Mac mini server running Boot Camped Windows 7, JRiver Media Center miniDSP U-DAC8 DAC with UpTone Audio USB Regen USB repeater. Loudspeakers: Bowers & Wilkins 800 Diamond.Ĭables: Digital: AudioQuest Vodka (HDMI) & Carbon (USB), Black Cat Veloce, van den Hul Flat 180 (HDMI). Power Amplifiers: McIntosh MC303, NAD M22, Parasound Halo A 31. Preamplifier: Audio Research MP1 (multichannel). Digital Sources: Sony XA-5400ES SACD/CD player, Oppo Digital BDP-105 universal BD player, Baetis XR2 PC-based music server, Benchmark DAC2 HGC and exaSound e28 D/A processors. ![]()
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