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The Best Amplifier Ever ?

OK, let's get the straight scoop! Stereophile reviewers want to push the Halcro dm58 (and presumably the dm68) into a newly formed A+ category because it is the best amplifier ever. For a moment, let's assume something like a "best" can exist, at least for one person at a time. Is this the end for all other amps in the proximate price range? Paul Bolin used words like "jaw dropping" and "utter disbelief" -- Oh I know that journalists like that kind of thing, but Mr. Bolin basically says that nothing else comes close to comparison. No contest. Not in the same league. Even in Stereophile, I can't recall something quite that glowing (except maybe for the Boulder 2008 phono preamp). What do you think?
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philefreak
423 posts
 
There is no best, just what synergizes with your system best!
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
"The Best Amp Ever"?-- Easy choice--Mine,cause it's paid for and in my room.

Ok,I think I know part of where you're going with this. TAS does the same thing,kinda. From month to month we get new reviews;each being "the best I ever heard". I would like to see more "shoot-outs". But hey we know that can't happen;somebody has to loose-- Probably the mag,as that mfg. quits advertising.
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kirk930
285 posts
 
soon in palm beach florida you guys can find out for yourself. you can in atlanta now. audio forest
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Oh, Mr cynically endowed has just discovered THE correct ans. As an astute keenly observant audiophile type that I are-----and the ans is---- Whatever the press loves/that costs the most. Simple deduction. This is easy;got any more tough questions?
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