Re: Do all amplifiers sound the same?

On Mar 29, 11:08 am, "Arny Krueger" <ar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Sonnova" <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  but how about a shoot-out between
> > the Mark Levinson No. 33H and a US$200 Behringer A500
> > power amp (230 Watts/channel into 4 ohms, 160
> > Watts/channel into 8 ohms)? With the output at the
> > speaker terminals measuring within 0.25 dB of each other,
> > just as before, nobody could detect much difference
> > between THOSE either, even though the Mark Levinson amps
> > cost almost 80 times the price of the Behringer! Sure,
> > there was some difference, but it wasn't enough to be
> > able tell RELIABLY that the amps had been switched.
>
> Interesting that there were FR differences that big. +/- 0.25 dB FR
> differences can be heard under some cir***stances.

The Behringer's FR is a little squishy at the top end, according to
Peter Aczel: "The low-frequency response is unexceptionable, but on
the top end -0.2 dB at 10 kHz and -0.6 dB at 20 kHz is a bit too much
of a rolloff in my opinion." Full review here:

http://theaudiocritic.com/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=20&blogId=1

bob