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dazzdax wrote:

Hi Roman, FM Acoustics amplifiers from Switserland have been regarded by many audiophiles (mostly the ones with lots of money) as the best sounding (solid state) amps regardless of price. They even bettered the best amps from Krell, Mark Levinson, etc. Are you familiar with the FM Acoustics amps? What do you think of their sound? What is the secret behind the famous FM Acoustics sound: circuit design? Parts selection? Power supply? Swiss watchmaker precision?

Chris, I have no idea. I never had FM Acoustics amplifiers. I heard in a couple of installations where FM Acoustics preamps were used but I believe they did not use FM Acoustics amplifiers.

What however make me almost laugh in your post was your proposal to use the “best amps from Krell and Mark Levinson” as some kind of reference. The performance largest Krell and Mark Levinson are one of the most remarkable (foolish) achievements in audiophilishm, which menace the ugliest sound AND the most devoted consumer worshiping. The irony is that most of the Krell and Mark Levinson are no juts horrible performing audio but extremely unfortunate and ignorantly made electronics. I dealt 3-4 years ago with a guy from California, heavy on the tech side guy, who actually was intimately familiar with the circuits of the largest Krells and Mark Levinsons. So, he informed me that those amplifiers, even from point of view of pure rules of currants and voltages propagation in electrical circuits were extremely poor, even extremely stupidly made designs. I do not make thing up, it was the assessment of the person who very much informed what he was taking.

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