Explain what is a clean power amplifier?

You will NOT ha e anything close to SOTA, no matter how much you boast. ONLY superior systems make superior sound. Tweaking is a loser’s game,

You are not completely wrong, nobody can make a Ferrari with a Volkswagen...

But automobile metaphors reach immediately here their limitations...

Audio system are constituted by 2 aspects, FIRST the high quality engineering design, and we must pay for that or choose vintage very good product; and SECOND the way to embed this design...

A bunch of tweaks is not a method....You are right....

But a method exist to embed any audio system rightfully....THIS IS THE KEY TO AUDIO,not giving money to company...

A relatively good design can give you Hi-Fi experience without investing money...This is the first step...

I have it....

Investing too much is a looser game....

Thinking, reading, experimenting with your EARS gives you not the best in the world without money but a reasonnably more than good audio system...

I know that first hand...

Sorry for those who think that we all are damned without money or without specialist to create it for us...

My audio system is made of vintage very good electronic parts and i dont think that one of the best amplifier in the world in 1978 is now trash compare to those actual design.... Same thing for speakers....

I dont sell anything, and i dont boast, my system is some Hi-Fi for peanuts....The price to pay was to embed it rightfully, mechanically,electrically,and acoustically especially....This systematic experiments in embeddings are a method not a bunch of costly tweaks...

I dont claim that my system is on par with very costly one i claim that it is not so far behind that what you suggest...

Money can afford Hi-Fi partly but we need a brain and some works to go there...

My post is for those who will read this thread and will think after reading you that they cannot make it by themselves except by giving mass of money, this is false, totally false, except for marketers or sellers; anybody can create his own heaven at low cost...Not the best there is for sure but a good one.... The rest is true boasting,... I dont boast, i motivate others people about their own creativity.... I sell nothing except that and at no cost.... Be free and create....

Mahgister, you typically make claims that spending more money without doing your "embeddings" is a waste. That's wrong, completely wrong. You are not making major progress by tweaking out your room. Even a very inexpensive speaker, one costing not much more than what you have now, with a different driver configuration, one that doesn't have to be put on a desk, would transform your sound utterly, completely. You would be in an entirely different place in the spectrum of performance. You could clear out every one of your "embeddings", put in a better speaker, and the sound quality would soar far above what it is now. 

Tweakers think they are moving at light speed toward the upper end, when in fact they are inching along. It's pretty sad. I used to be a Chintziphile, so I know all about pretending you have oh, so close to premium sound on the cheap. 

Go ahead, dismiss my comments as though I have something to sell. I'm not paid to write, and I have put in a lot more of my own money into audio than I ever dreamed I would. The reason? I actually got to handle the gear that showed how wrong I was. If not for that I would still be in the camp of people thinking that you can get the same result on the cheap. 

Simply because you work like a dog to tweak systems, you figure you are making amazing headway, catapulting the sound WAY up there. Not so. You are messing around in a small, yes small, slice of the performance spectrum and are not even touching the upper end. You typically do not qualify your posts, but boast about getting sound that can't be improved, is exemplary, etc. It's ridiculous.  :(

How can you know what i listen to?

You are very affected by the possibility for people to afford at low cost their own heaven, why?

Are you a seller?

Do you think that you are the only  one who knows how to push some audio system near his optimal sound?

There is many different audio system at different prices, none are on the same level than the others.... Price is related yes in some way to quality....

But my friend any system at any price has his own optimal potential that is not there ready made out of the box.... We must EMBED mechanically, electrically, and acoustically ANY system, whatever his price....

This is my 3 embeddings method, not a bunch of tweaks by some fool that delude himself...

My concept is clear for anyone to understand, NO audio system is ready to play at his potential without controlling his resonance and vibrations, without  decreasing the electrical noise floor of the system and of the house, without controlling passively with some materials and actively with some device the room's acoustic... These are my 3 embeddings method for all to do....

What you dont like is the fact that applying that is also possible at low cost  with homemade materials or low cost one...

 Why ? Why ranting about this good news?

You completely miss the point...

I never negate that there is different price points and a level of quality that we must pay for...

I only try to clarify some simple rules i called triple embeddings for ANY audio system be it 1000 dollars or 10000 dollars...

Even the costlier amplifier in the world can be isolated, tuned, and located in a house more electrically clean and in a good acoustical room...He will reach then his own potential S.Q.

Even a low cost one also can be push at his own potential in the same way...

You falsely accuse me to negate the difference between the 2 price and quality design...

Then you affirm something i never say, that there will be no difference at all between a 1000 piece of gear and a 100,000 one...

What i say is the real difference between the 2 system is not so much generally the money or the quality design only but the right or wrong way to embed them...

Hi -Fi experience is possible at low cost....But nobody in his right mind will say that all audio design has the same potential at the same level...

When timbre naturalness is there, and imaging, when the speakers dont exist anymore, when the sound float in the room, you have SOME hi-fi experience at SOME level.... Is it possible at low cost? yes this is possible.... The rest is boasting about price.....

Tweakers think they are moving at light speed toward the upper end, when in fact they are inching along. It’s pretty sad.

What you just say about SOME tweakers can be said about SOMEreviewers that sell a product....

"reviewers think they are moving at light speed toward the upper end,when in fact they are inching along. It is pretty sad"

You see the irony? All tweakers are not made equal no more than all reviewers are made equal....

The TRUTH is simple: the way a product is embed is as important as his quality design or his price... This is the only fact i affirm.... Like it or not.....


I am not a tweaker among others, and i dont sell tweak, i describe a method and my idea are free, i bought nothing, i create with homemade materials or 10 bucks device....I experiment with my ears....Inching along yourself my friend.... I know what i listen to....What is pretty sad is when others describe for you your own experience without even trying to understand you....Keep your turf safe i will keep mine....I wish you the best and i like to discuss...thanks for this occasion for me to clarify my points...

My best to you....

A clean power amplifier stands out in a crowd. Look for a pristine face plate with no smudges or missing silk screening. The sides, bottom plate and rear panel the same and look for bright shinny input connectors, speaker posts and the female IEC slot. A quick look inside would reveal no dust, clean circuit boards, wire, caps and transformers. If it is an exposed tube amp in addition to the above, look for clean chrome or top surface with no scratching from cleaning and shiny glass on the tubes.