Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing

I had a photo of the inside of the amp that is the subject of this thread and commented that the parts could not justify the price. 

@fsonicsmith, how many other audiophile products (that many folks purchase and enjoy their sound) would this statement be true for?  Plus, how do you factor in the cost of custom designed and manufactured circuits/technology?   Do you know how much Atmasphere (or other manufacturers with custom tech) spend to develop such tech?  Unless you have listened to the amp in question and compared it to many other similarly priced products, your statement seems off-target from my perspective.

Here is a photo of the inside of my DAC, which after owning various models from SimAudio, Berkeley, Bricasti, RME, and Mojo Audio is my favorite so far, it also costs way more than I ever thought I would spend on a digital front end and it has next to nothing under its cover.   Does its lack of parts justify its MSRP? 

So far I find the Atmasphere Monos to be in line performance wise with my slightly more expensive Pass XA30.8; I have not popped the cover off my Pass to compare them as in the end it doesn't really matter to me since I'm using my ears to decide which amp I prefer.

@ddafoe Is your DAC a Meitner? If not will you reveal it?

@klh007, As you posted above, @ddafoe's System details says he owns the Meitner MA3 DAC.

+1 ddafoe

@ddafoe in my system I found the Atma-Sphere Class D was slightly better than the Pass XA30.8. I am hoping soon to put the XA 60.8’s in my system soon. And will be trying them a friends system with the XA60.8’s. But that’s my system and a few of us opinions. We had shared to the Atma-Sphere was slightly better all the way around. Was the your perspective in your system?