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The End Of Big Iron?

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Once upon a time you could buy a 1,000 wpc, a 900 wpc and a 750 wpc monoblock from Krell. You could buy a 1,000 wpc monoblock from Pass Labs. Now, 575 wpc is the biggest you can get from Krell and 600 wpc is the biggest you can get from Pass Labs. The muscle of flagship amps in those mfgs has been virtually halved. I mean, was 1,000 wpc, 900 wpc, or a 750 wpc amplifier ever necessary? If they were, why are they no longer necessary? What has changed in audio or speaker technology to cause the dwindling of 'muscle' amps?
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macrojack
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Jeff Rowland's new Daemon integrated provides 1500 watts per channel. Big enough?
I imagine Unsound is referring to the prodigious output of many new class D designs. While they certainly deliver the juice, they are not the massive, back breaking monster blobs of metal that I took as the object of the thread title.
OTOH, the above mentioned Daemon does weigh 99 lbs.
csontos
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Unsound, do you know price tag on the totl Naim combo?
unsound
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Saw the price of the amps; let me just say I'm not bothering with an audition.:-)
ebm
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Have PASS 350.8 350 ch its plenty and sounds wonderful.
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mapman
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Higher efficiency class d amps up the ante in terms of power available when needed. Very "green" as well.
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