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RE:Good point! However, how much are interconnects limiting factor in separates?

Actually your statement is potentially even far more accurate than you may think.

IMO, I can probably take any well-enough designed middle-of-the-raod int. and make it easily outperforms separates that should be greatly superior.

Why? Because, and besides the one less pair of IC's you pointed out, there's generally:

1. One less power supply that needs to deal with noisy AC coming in from the street.
2. One less power supply inducing internally-generated vibrations that need to be controlled.
3. There's one less chassis capturing unwanted air-borne and internally-generated vibrations.

Considering these two basic energies when under-controlled will induce far more sonic harm than all other distortions combined, it is completely logical that an reasonably well-designed int. amp should easily generate a superior level of musicality over separates costing many times more than the int. amp.

Regardless of the performance-oriented industry, when it comes to performance less should always be more.

If (and it is so) less is more translating to performance gains is true, then the question is, why hasn't this less-is-more concept caught on in the supposedly performance-oriented high-end audio industry?


Edits: 04/07/15
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