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Re: Acurus A250 Amplifier (SS)

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They in fact did change the amp.
I read a review in the "Holier than thou" Stereophile and they had a fresh from the box unit, no break in and called it "brittle at times". It basically rated c/b just above the Adcom GFA-555.
With my current setup, I experiance NO brittleness. And unlike some snots in the high end industry, I actually can HEAR 20khz well! [Audiometric exams prove that]. I just hate it when some 60 year old guy tries to critique something in the upper treble when I doubt like hell he can hear it at all.
Anyway, I have no doubt that the amp would do better with a better pre-amp than the L-10. I think for the money [I paid $600] the L-10 does exceptionally well. Curious: I had not thought of a tube preamp because I had been stuck on mosfets being more accurate than tubes. I had lengthy discussion with tube vs S/S and I vowed that I will only use S/S from now on. Weather that is true or not is a heated debate. BUT: If I were to drop $2k on a Bryston pre amp, them I am sure I will get marginal improvements as I heard thr Bryston on a set of B&W 801's. Effortless, sure, but the speakers are $5000.


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