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Fiera8 - 8 Channel Amplifier on sale for $1259 - $62.95 off w/ promo code:
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Specs:- Output Power:
- 130 W RMS at 8 Ω （1%THD, per channel）
- 260 W RMS at 4 Ω (1% THD, per channel）
- Channel Quantity: 8 channels
- Amplifier Type: Class D
- Frequency Response: 10Hz - 20Khz -1.2DB
- Maximum output current per channel: 16.5A
- Signal-To-Noise Rati (SNR): >110dB, "A" weighted at 4Ω 260W
- Input terminals:
- 8-Channel RCA Input
- 8-Channel XLR Input
- Output terminals: 8 pairs of Beryllium copper binding posts
- Color options: Black
- Full Size Dimensions:
- W 17.7 x H 5.5 x D 13.4 inches (w/ foot& faceplate)
- W 450 x H 140 x D 340mm (w/ foot& faceplate)
- Weight: 21.8 lbs (9.9 kg)
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My 2 channel set up is an Arcam SA30 doing duty as pre-amp, Arcam PA240 2 channel amp powering Revel F206 speakers with Arcam CDS50 streamer/SACD. Love the Dirac Live and eARC on the SA30. Wish they sold a pure pre-amp with those features.
My 2 channel set up is an Arcam SA30 doing duty as pre-amp, Arcam PA240 2 channel amp powering Revel F206 speakers with Arcam CDS50 streamer/SACD. Love the Dirac Live and eARC on the SA30. Wish they sold a pure pre-amp with those features.
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Again and I'm not sure how to make this any clearer. It's a rule of thumb unless someone is charging you the earth or advertising that it's super lightweight AND quoting a ton of audio magazine reviews (because something that lightweight will make huge news if it can perform) run away quickly from something that weighs less than 3 lb a channel. (As this amp that we are supposed to be talking about does)
Edit: for those who are curious and don't know the difference between the class of amplifiers, this is a good starting point https://boomspeaker.com/class-d-a...-class-ab/
Again and I'm not sure how to make this any clearer. It's a rule of thumb unless someone is charging you the earth or advertising that it's super lightweight quoting a ton of audio magazine reviews (because something that lightweight will make huge news if it can perform) run away quickly from something that weighs less than 3 lb a channel. (As this amp that we are supposed to be talking about does)
Edit: for those who are curious and don't know the difference between the class of amplifiers, this is a good starting point https://boomspeaker.com/class-d-a...-class-ab/ [boomspeaker.com]
Again and I'm not sure how to make this any clearer. It's a rule of thumb unless someone is charging you the earth or advertising that it's super lightweight AND quoting a ton of audio magazine reviews (because something that lightweight will make huge news if it can perform) run away quickly from something that weighs less than 3 lb a channel. (As this amp that we are supposed to be talking about does)
Edit: for those who are curious and don't know the difference between the class of amplifiers, this is a good starting point https://boomspeaker.com/class-d-a...-class-ab/ [boomspeaker.com]
In any case class 'd' and similar designs are about 90% efficient or more, so no big heat sinks, no huge power supply that have to make up for the wasted energy of other designs. Totally different. 100% different. No comparison.
The industry suppressed blind testing of amps and electronics because folks could not reliably support their products with winning results.
Even where there are differences in sound the inconsistency of hearing and the fact that one amp may be perceived as preferred on one track and the other amp perceived as such on another negates the 'benefits'. My understanding is that even worse folks were terrible inconsistent in picking out amps often coming up with different preferences given the same examples more than once.
IMHO, this is likely due to the fact that once truly level matched most decently designed solid state amps sound very close if not the same so picking differences out reliably is hard stuff.
This was NOT true when tubes were more common as they vary wildly in sound and vary wildly with different speakers due the fact that many of them give wild frequency deviations with differing loads(speaker impedances) and some have very high levels of distortions.
There were blind tests published that are now hard to find and I assure you manufactures have conducted them and still do but they will never publish them as there is basically no winner and value to the company's outside of internal research and development.
Even big players in the technical excellence field, like Benchmark and Purifi, do not publish any blind tests to show their superbly measuring amp is audibly better than an average one.
Speakers are much harder to comprehensively test in the first place due the signal leaving the tidy electrical environment and being translated into wild air movements in your room. Extra difficult to fully test blind but a few companies still do it. There are some cool results out there.
You can do some online tests of distortion, Lossless audio, various hearing thresholds and a wide variety of other things as well. Those are fun and humbling IMHO. Yet to meet anyone who consistently passes them. Many folks chose 128mb MP3's over Lossless audio
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