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| Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier? The seller will service it. These are actual audio dealers in China, not just some guy selling stuff online. I bought a CD transport from the Queenway Store which was claimed to be a clone of a Wadia circuit. I broke an internal cable trying to op... | |
| Nain Audio Just a note, you can find Naim clones, mainly NAP200 and 250s, all over AliExpress. You can find higher end models and power supplies on Taobao. | |
| Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier? The Audioquest FireBird speaker cables and WEL Signature interconnects I got from AliExpress seem to be legit products. The quality level is too high, and the DBS units appear to be wired up correctly. Also, would they honestly copy the DBS units ... | |
| Shootout-- Primaluna Dialog HP Integrated/Carver Crimson 275/Elekit 300B And yet no one wants to address the apparent lack of dynamics? Professional reviewers like everything. Any differences between amps never makes them better or worse, it's just a difference in taste. If something is bad, they'll couch it in a posit... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? After well over 200 hours of burn-in of the Weiss opamps I did my first focused listening test. The low-quality / distorted / unnatural midrange has come back. I could have sworn that issue was largely resolved by the Sparkos, but maybe I was misr... | |
| Shootout-- Primaluna Dialog HP Integrated/Carver Crimson 275/Elekit 300B "Round", "smooth", "clean", "party", etc. I read this as all three being bad amps. For some reason people like to call lack of dynamics "smooth", "laid-back", etc, as if it's a matter of taste between positive traits and not simply that it sucks. ... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? In a few more days the Weiss opamps will be at 200 hours and ready for evaluation. Also I have the amp running through a 500 watt balanced isolation transformer along with the DAC and pre; I wonder if there could be any current starvation going here. | |
| Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier? The "barely surviving" industry have themselves to thank for it. They chose to charge absurd, wild markups and content themselves with super high profit margin but low production. Those that have been trying to serve the lower end market decided t... | |
| Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier? I love how whenever this topic comes up, 99% of the comments have nothing at all to do with the topic. So let's talk about clone sound. I picked up a super cheap Naim NAP 200 copy from AliExpress. These are all over the place. They don't copy the ... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? @clustrocasual That's very interesting. If the Weiss is that good perhaps I'll hold off on returning it. How did you replace the cabling? Including the Molex connector cables? | |
| Substantial Upgrade I just read some OP's posts in the first page, I should have done that first. Sprout using it's phono stage? Right. Sorry I wouldn't have asked for detailed listening impressions from such a setup. | |
| Substantial Upgrade @bruinucafan Can you describe in detail the upgrade to the sound? Did you compare them back to back to validate it? Which cart are you using and did you upgrade that too? | |
| Substantial Upgrade I would beware of being led down the path of being scammed in this market / industry. See my other topic I just updated about tonearm ripoffs. You’ll notice that almost all of the responses in that thread REFUSE to answer the question if tonearms ... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Alright. I'm resurrecting this topic because...I may have been RIPPED OFF. Not by anyone in specific but by being led down a false path re turntable systems and their upgrade paths.My old turntable system:MoFi StudioDeckAT-AC9ML/IIIfi Phono 2I was... | |
| The anachronistic CD Transport? And do I really need one. I bought a transport from AliExpress for around $600, supposedly a Wadia clone circuit. It does have a tendency to overheat or something which causes it to stop playing and error out after some time. There's a newer version out with a better clock... |