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You need to compare them with other products in the same price league. There are always people who can afford it.

The biggest problem I have seen in the last 3-4 years is that most people are only able to create a rather low level out of the loudspeakers and amps they own

Even when you spend a lof of money on poweramps it will not solve this limitation. People who have audio as a hobby and even the people who work in audio don’t know a lot about the real properties each loudspeaker owns.

The choices they make are only founded on trial&error. This means that they try differerent combinations. But they still have no idea about which properties they take out and which ones they bring in by changing to another amp, source, cable or loudspeaker.

That is why trial&error is audiogambling. There is no discussion possible to find a good foundation to create any audio system by trial&error.

The properties are just one part. The other reasons why people are only able to get a low level in quality is based on the parts which influences the sound and stage in a nagative way.

We see that most people in audio and also who use it as a hobby have only a little knowledge in:

- the acoustics
- electricity
- smog
- high freqency noise
- magnetism

And what diversity in sound is and why it is the most important part to reveal the emotion the music possesses.

When audio goes on by trial&error the facts show that you are only able to use a low level out of any amp.

An amp like the XS150 and XS300 will not make it more easy compared to a cheaper amp. When you are not able to understand properties and are aware of all the parts who influences the sound and stage negatively audio is one big gamble.

Money will never solve the problems and limitations people create by trial&error.

dweller1,422 posts05-01-2017 7:55am@georgehifi The parasounds were $6,000 pair when this article was written: Feb 16, 2003.

Still the best bargain around even with inflation, for high power, high Class-A bias monoblock poweramps. And used even better bargain.

Cheers George 

bo1772,
I'll say it once, and then never again (unlike you).
You have told us all what we don't know well over 1000 times. To save us all from expensive future mistakes, and all of the "useless" trial and error, why don't you once and for all write a useful thread outlining all of your secrets to great sound?
If you don't want to share, then remain quiet and go your way.

Bigkidz - give it up. Coal is dead. Those people need jobs, not environmental destruction they won’t even benefit from. You want a winning industry? Wind power. Solar. Those industries are booming. They need workers..

Until the industry dies because air pollution is ok again. Otherwise, most of your facts were factual while looking at the argument from a completely different perspective and in the process glossing over the main point of rising income inequality. That is a proven fact. Yes, the rich take risks. But they are now taking greater and greater shares of the reward.

That said, expensive amps are hardly our most pressing issue as a society. Not worth freaking out over, at least.