@Damon 's mention of Mcintosh amps and D'Agnostino amps reminded me of something that Mathieu Pernot said at one of the Oxford Audio events a couple of years ago. With a bit of hunting, I found the words I posted at the time: (July 2018)
I was talking to Mathieu and we were both looking around the shop at the various products on display. We happened to be looking at a selection of amps, and were talking about the new Acoustic Research REF160's and some big Musical Fidelity amps. I commented on the REF160's, because they look surprising big in the flesh, huge in fact.
Mathieu made a comment that they thought the Expert range would sell better in the US if it was bigger, apparently a lot of potential US customers somehow cannot accept that the tiny slim Devialet's can be pushing out 1000w RMS, or maybe they just prefer "big". Mathieu said something along the lines of "it might have sold better if we had just put it into a much bigger case."
Oddly enough, if they did make a Devialet in a bigger case, with lots of cooling fins to keep temperatures in check, and the opportunity to space out the PSU, phono stage etc. to improve performance, this is something I might quite like myself. I'm not sure if blue backlit power meters would suit though.
I was talking to Mathieu and we were both looking around the shop at the various products on display. We happened to be looking at a selection of amps, and were talking about the new Acoustic Research REF160's and some big Musical Fidelity amps. I commented on the REF160's, because they look surprising big in the flesh, huge in fact.
Mathieu made a comment that they thought the Expert range would sell better in the US if it was bigger, apparently a lot of potential US customers somehow cannot accept that the tiny slim Devialet's can be pushing out 1000w RMS, or maybe they just prefer "big". Mathieu said something along the lines of "it might have sold better if we had just put it into a much bigger case."
Oddly enough, if they did make a Devialet in a bigger case, with lots of cooling fins to keep temperatures in check, and the opportunity to space out the PSU, phono stage etc. to improve performance, this is something I might quite like myself. I'm not sure if blue backlit power meters would suit though.
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