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RE: how many of you have actually LISTENED to a cheap amp?

Yup, the SMSL SA-90 is so good, it's not available anymore. You may have missed 40% of the reviews which are one star, like:

"Firstly this amp begins clipping at cuts out at volumes that the lepy cruises right on past. Both amps tend to clip when driving my 8 ohm klipsch speakers which I have a couple different models of but the lepy does so at far higher volumes then the smsl . When driving 4 ohm klipsch satellites the lepy drives them far past comfortable volumes and the smsl wimps out again. All the small amps I've tested do a way better job with 4 ohm speakers likely due to less resistance on their digital circuitry but the lepy leaves this amp in the dust."

That doesn't sound like a Pass amp to me!

But maybe it's a big-ticket-amp conspiracy: couldn't have them around because they were sooo close in sound, so drove 'em out of business! Just like the gov't and carburetors that ran on water! 8-)

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