DMA-500 Anniversary Reference Monoblocks
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Yes, but considering that the 400s will continue as a product, until perhaps upgraded, it's not an unreasonable asking price
My pair arrived but I won't buy until I sell my 400s at a reasonable price. I am surprised that no owner of the 500s - and there are many - has not provided any listening impressions so far. For my impressions, you will just have to wait
but for now, I will just quote the dealer's characterization as "pure and natural", and I am not basing this on what I hear in the store and with the Magico M3s.My pair arrived but I won't buy until I sell my 400s at a reasonable price. I am surprised that no owner of the 500s - and there are many - has not provided any listening impressions so far. For my impressions, you will just have to wait
Congrats and enjoy.
In the US, yes, it's silly, there is only two that carry the 500s. But there are another ~100 more around the world. It's sort of a reward to the best dealers. Nonetheless, I don't care for such business practices in high end audio, or other sh*t like one Pass dealer owning most of the US market, etc.
Pass has a unique approach. You can’t compare them to other brick and mortar dealerships. They are not direct to consumer but they’re not conventional dealership model either. The consumer happens to be very well served by the Pass model in my opinion. I would not compare Pass Labs to Spectral when I comes to marketing approach and other services. For instance almost all models are always available with in-home trials.
Warming up
Fascinating amplifiers, claimed to measure better than the 30SV preamp, including distortion... quite impressive... more to come
Fascinating amplifiers, claimed to measure better than the 30SV preamp, including distortion... quite impressive... more to come
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ack, two questions about the DMA 500, from your pictures. There appears to be a spacer under the knurled aluminum foot that the amp rests on, is this a compliant material? The wiring harness that connects the output stage to the speaker binding posts looks like the one used prior to the RS series amps, not the massive black ones they had, any explanation on this? I am looking forward to hearing these new amps, not sure where though now that Overture isn't a player. Thanks for your posting!
Yes it's Sorbothane. I will be adding a layer of Isodamp when I get off my butt one day
No idea; I can only guess that it's part of the overall capacitance and inductance of the circuit, possibly in conjunction with the speaker cables. There is no technical bulletin either for us to to be able to tell anything on this. I can also tell you that I briefly replaced the MIT speaker cables with some thin hook-up wire I have, in a test to make sure I didn't blow the speaker cables (see my system's thread discussion on this), and the amp ended up sounding literally like a 1960's hand-held transistor radio - no kidding.
FWIW, I've been and will continue to be writing my impressions on these amps under my system thread, starting at http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...end-of-round-1&p=512724&viewfull=1#post512724
So Ack
given your experience with 400s and the DAC, were people right when they said the 400s were too bright and there was an issue
given your experience with 400s and the DAC, were people right when they said the 400s were too bright and there was an issue
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