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Lucky you

You can't hear the difference between amplifiers. That way you won't be tempted to spend the money on them.

It is an interesting comment on your education that apparently you have been taught, in the first instance, not to trust your own senses but to seek some "expert" validation of an abstract hypothesis.

If you want to experimentally confirm or deny your hypothesis, you should start by changing only one variable -- the amplifier -- and leaving everything else constant. I don't even think you'll have to go nutso on the tweaks and the wires, just have a decent source, playing decent music (acoustic music recorded in a "live" venue is my preference) through decent speakers. I heard the difference between a high-end Japanese receiver from the late 1970s (a Luxman) and Krell's small integrated amplifier on a pair of $400 speakers that had very little bass response below 50 Hz (Snell K-IIs). I think I was using generic interconnects and Monster XP speaker wire.


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