Burmester 218.....

I heard the SimAudio 761 this summer when I visited Toronto. A superb amp which reminded me of a more refined Benchmark AHB2 with much more power. I would definitely like to own either a 761 or 861. The 761 had great detail but also a KRELL XD-like smoothness. 

I have also heard a few of the German amp at local shows and dealers in Los Angeles.

ckr1969,

because I wanted to and I can. and I think you better reread the review again because he said it times the buzzing was quite loud I guess you didn't read that part, $50,000 amps that are buzzing should not be reviewed The proper thing to have done and everybody agrees would have been to send the amps back and get two different ones to see if the same thing would happen and if it did then obviously the quality control is not very good is it? Stereophile and that reviewer have lost all credibility and everybody on all of the different forums said the same thing. so if you want to excuse poor manufacturing and quality control and spend $50,000 on amps that can't be easily serviced because there's very few dealers in North America go right ahead lol

@zuesman sorry, but you are full of crap, your story never happened,

I do agree tho, if there was a buzz than the review should have been cancelled until they got replacements,

also, they have a service center in Atlanta if there was to be issues, so not very difficult, Burmester is one hell of a company to do business with unlike many others

enjoy the Sim, im sure its a nice amp

ckr1969,

It's hard for me to believe that both amos would have been damaged in the same way to cause both to be buzzing that's more of a quality control issue, I majored in electronics in trade school and I was a CATV technician in case you don't know what CATV is it's cable television and I think you should reread the review again because the reviewer said at times the buzzing was quite noticeable, how is that a superb sounding amp? that would be extremely annoying trying to listen to music with buzzing coming through the speakers are you really that stupid to try and convince yourself that the amps sounded good when there was buzzing going on in them? are you really that stupid? Good luck trying to get them serviced if yours start buzzing, I wonder how long you'll be waiting to get them back when they have to go back to Germany to be serviced.LOL

And SIM audio is even a bigger hell of a company they service 65 countries around the world and have 57 dealers in North America, and they are huge in Asia a lot bigger than Burmester.