[QUOTE]Originally posted by NSXS
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I remember a man by the name of Bob Carver saying the very same thing about 25 years ago.

 

Wow koejing, you remember the model numbers! Sure, Bob has made a lot of "break throughs". Some, like using a switching power supply in an amp (remember the "magnetic" amps) were pretty good others, like calling his stereo blend circuit for FM something like Asymetric Tuning, or whatever, was just marketing BS. My favorite Carver story is how he fooled Stereophile reviewers into thinking his amp was a famous tube one. He claimed he did that by matching the transfer function of his amp to the tube one.

Sorry, getting off track. Anyway, he was the first mainstream audiophile to bring up the fact that speakers can handle more power if the peaks aren't clipped, unless you amp fries a transistor and feeds your speaker DC.

 

NSXS,

Yeah, I'm pretty familiar with the Phase Linear line. I use 4 PL 400's in my home theater system. I usually buy broken ones on FleaBay and fix em (usually sell for ~$150-$200). 9 times out of 10 the output transistors are wiped out in one or both channels. It's an easy fix and sure costs a lot less than buying a current amp with that kind of power.

-koejing