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Post Subject: When Marketing (and a Moron) Kills SoundPosted by Paul S on: 8/26/2023
I went back and read the introduction at NAT's website, and it makes me suspicious, right away. It makes me wonder if there is an engineer who also has a hard time reading about "his design", or if they all work together to sell expensive amplifiers. There is the usual claim for significant improvements over the previous iteration that I suppose pisses off people who already bought NAT amps. But I think it has long been common in audio that some boutique companies basically sell nothing but Betas. But the biggest question for me is, what are the advantages of this amp over other amps with similar or even more power, driving what might be called "high end" speakers. Of course, the ad clains this amp will drive all sorts of speakers, but I remember hearing the very fine ML2s struggling with too much speaker. I also noticed that there is an "option" to switch the amp from 170W to 60W; quite a drop in power. Why would anyone do that? Maybe the engineer brought them a 60W amp and the marketing guys said, "What we need is 200W!" Who knows? Do any of our readers use this amp, or something like it? What's it like?
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