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001_Cover_Mar_v10_JRPMSP.indd 1 10/02/2020 16:40 Monoblock power amplifier. Rated at 1500W/8ohm Made by: D’Agostino LLC, Connecticut, USA Supplied by: Absolute Sounds Ltd Telephone: 0208 971 3909 Web: www.dagostinoinc.com; www.absolutesounds.com MONO POWER AMPLIFIER Price: £125,000 (each) D’Agostino Relentless
The culmination of one man’s ‘relentless’ quest to develop his ‘dream amplifier – an amplifier without any limits’ is revealed in this special six-page, in-depth review... Review: Paul Miller with Ken Kessler & Andrew Everard Lab: Paul Miller
t is not unusual for products featured in 1µm-deep diamond cut finish, gloss black all the time so that ‘users are confident Hi-Fi News to rival a family car for cost. and silver (natural) anodising and hard, something is going on’, admitted Dan, But a pair of monoblocks that weigh synthetic enamel coating. The price, if you ‘fun to look at, but please don’t take the as much as a car and cost as much need to ask, is an astonishing £125,000 numbers too seriously’. Ias a house? While that is surely breaking per mono chassis, in either colour. As I say, new territory for us all, the prospect best not to ask... DECORATIVE BY DESIGN of ‘stretching the envelope’ in power Power output is rated at 1.5kW/8ohm, Why? Simply put, the early Momentum output, industrial design and sheer audio with a theoretically ‘perfect’ doubling amplifiers had accurate meters and, with performance was clearly uppermost in CEO to 3kW/4ohm and 6kW/2ohm [see Lab typical real-world outputs being just a Dan D’Agostino’s mind as he contemplated Report, p41]. This is at least few watts for much of Under the bonnet, D’Agostino has In order to achieve a very high power, ABOVE: Unmistakably ‘D’Agostino’, albeit on a the next step on from his 400W/8ohm partially reflected in the the time, the needles specified a suitably robust power supply, typically beyond about 500W/8ohm, most very grand scale, the black livery is offered as an Momentum monoblocks [HFN Oct ’16]. 0-1.6kW scale embedded ‘It is over half were barely moving. I with a fully-screened 5kVA toroidal mains high-end amplifiers employ a bridged alternative to silver. Illumination for the 200mm Enter the Relentless, a battleship to into the eye-catching meter a metre wide think D’Agostino just got transformer that weighs some 35kg in output, doubling the available voltage diameter display is dimmable/defeatable but sink all other flagships, and a statement that glares from its fascia. fed up with customers its own right. The ‘standby’ and control by combining two amplifiers, one out of the meter calibration is deliberately inaccurate! of intent rivalled only by Wilson’s WAMM By now a hallmark of the and weighs a complaining that their circuitry transformer, adjacent, looks small phase with the other. The Relentless is a Master Chronosonic or Magico’s Q7 MkII D’Agostino brand, the amplifiers were faulty! but is still bigger than those fitted to some true balanced design that uses a single PSU that offers a headroom of some 20% loudspeakers in the elusive quest to inch us design resembles watch quarter of a ton’ I tested the meter modest integrated amplifiers! differential input amplifier, a current mirror for this input stage. The following current that little bit closer to the ‘real thing’. We dials from the 19th century, calibration here and This custom PSU is supported by a bank circuit, to derive the mirrored (plus and gain stage runs on the same rails as the saw the Relentless displayed at Munich’s while the needle is a facsimile of the hour can report that with just 1W/8ohm at of six huge 100,000µF electrolytics that minus) audio rails. output stage, the latter employing purely High End 2018, and 2019, but we only hand created by Abraham Louis Breguet – the output the scale reads 400W, while are clamped firmly into place by a Delrin complementary drivers and output devices, heard it for the first time in Europe at our the greatest watchmaker of all time. 20W/8ohm is indicated as a full 1kW. ‘Coke can holder’ designed to mitigate any TRANSISTOR FARM all from ON Semiconductor. Hi-Fi Show Live in Ascot last October. So In use you’ll regularly see that needle During the real power tests [see p41], potential microphony [see Investigation, Even-order distortions are suppressed, if This output stage is a huge ‘transistor this is the first – and possibly the only – flicking up beyond 300W, but this is ‘fake those needles were slammed into their end HFN Jul ’18]. The transformer has a split not entirely cancelled by this technique, farm’ staged over eight separate parallel full and independent technical test you news’ – the meters are made to move stops and all but bending under the strain. secondary winding that feeds two sets of which is just one reason why D’Agostino amplifier modules – it is simply impractical will read of the hi-fi world’s most rectifiers – these are not destined for each has reduced the overall feedback, or to fabricate a single PCB to host this many luxurious, most powerful, heaviest half of the amplifier but are combined to compensation, employed in the design [see devices. Each module [see picture, p38] and costliest amplifier... ever. feed both sides of the amplifier in tandem. boxout, below]. Also key is the ‘super rail’ has eight complementary pairs of bipolar Time to assemble the HFN crew! This is a mono chassis, but the amplifier is a power transistors, adding up to 128 story of two perfectly balanced sides. devices per mono chassis. BETTER BY THE TON Moreover, every power Pictures alone cannot convey the ARE YOU WARM YET? transistor is hand-matched to sheer scale of this amplifier, so create the ideal complementary here’s the Relentless by numbers: With 1000s of watts on tap, and a fully pair and each pair grouped to each chassis is over a half metre floating output that cannot be permitted to ensure optimum symmetry. So, in width (572x280x826mm, see a sniff of ground, the Relentless presents with as many drivers as output whd), weighs over a some special challenges for anyone intending devices, the Relentless functions quarter ton (258kg) and is to work up a full lab test. This is not a task as 32 smaller, fast power amps in composed of interlocking for the inexperienced! But there are more parallel per balanced side. slabs of precision-milled subtle factors that need to be considered, There’s no Zobel or other copper and aluminium alloy. in particular the impact of D’Agostino’s low stabilising network on the output The latter is a very costly feedback scheme on performance as this mass of copper and aluminium very as the Relentless is specified as ‘aircraft-grade’ alloy that slowly heats up. When first taken out of standby, a ‘cold’ Relentless incurs some unconditionally stable into any likely load. guarantees the quality of the 0.006% distortion (1kHz/10W/8ohm) but over the first hour or so this reduces to 0.0035% [black trace, inset Graph] as the heatsinks gradually adapt to the 512W TURNING UP THE HEAT RIGHT: The main 5kVA toroidal of idle power consumption. Just leaving a pair of these amps powered-up draws Unsurprisingly, this many richly-biased PSU transformer and bank of six [blue] as much from the wall as a one-bar electric heater, the chassis typically rising devices generates a good deal of heat that 100V reservoir electrolytics dominate to 25oC over ambient (so about 45oC in a 20oC living space). After 24hrs the requires dissipation. The amplifier modules the interior, powering the input [far Relentless’s thermal latency is almost entirely resolved, the linearity of its output are bolted to two 23kg copper slabs right] and output stages [top and stage maintained by sheer mass at a low 0.0015% distortion [red dotted trace, that are clamped to its custom external bottom]. High current relays afford inset Graph]. For more exclusive performance figures, see Lab Report, p41. heatsinking – a variation on the passive protection [silver, on floor of amp] Venturi cooling system first seen on the
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THE HD PREAMP bare-wire/spade cable terminations into DAN D’AGOSTINO position. The line input is achieved by less The perfect partner for D’Agostino’s flagship monoblocks? The Momentum HD violent means – a simple balanced XLR ‘Once the decision was made, it Preamp, seen here in silver/copper livery, is certainly an aesthetic match for connection suffices here. took about a year to design and the Relentless but it was designed primarily to service the Momentum M400 then get a working sample up and [HFN Oct ’16] and S250 power amplifiers. We learned during our interview with COUNTDOWN TO LIFTOFF running’, confirmed founder and CEO designer/CEO Dan D’Agostino [see opposite page] that the HD Preamp already Once you have the Relentless(s) positioned Dan D’Agostino. Few would argue benefits from a lot of the thinking that has informed the soon-to-be-released – adjacent to your loudspeakers seems de with Dan’s contribution to the art Relentless Preamplifier, including the use of a fully discrete differential FET input rigueur – and securely clamped to the AC and engineering of cutting-edge stage, comprehensive PSU filtering and isolation, plus over-voltage rails (+36%) mains, a breaker switch is accessed on the amplification, and the Relentless for the output stage. Convenience features are enhanced too, including rear panel. This puts the amp into standby not only incorporates lessons the remote control which is now a Bluetooth device and that 200mm learned from the development offering out-of-sight, long-range operation. watchface meter is of the Momentum series but also Owners of the existing Momentum Preamplifier illuminated in red. the entirety of his 40 years at the [HFN Nov ’13] are able to upgrade to the new The main power forefront of high-end design. Momentum HD model. A separate in-depth button is hidden just But what of digital – will there review of the £48,000 HD Preamplifier is underneath the front of a micrometer. HFN readers will surely ABOVE: Seen in silver, D’Agostino’s ‘Venturi be a network-connected front-end scheduled for next month’s Hi-Fi News, and I face, near the stainless grasp this idea, but only when you hear the effect’ sidecheeks not only wick thermal waste to partner the Relentless? ‘The used one during the course of my extended steel foot on the right Relentless in action does the penny truly away from the copper heatsinks but also people doing digital are doing such sessions with the Relentless, typically partnered hand side. Turn-on drop. For the Relentless amplifier is a contribute to its distinctive industrial design a fine job – dCS for example – that with dCS’s Vivaldi One digital hub [HFN Feb ’18]. is absolutely silent, and game-changer and proof-positive that we feel we have little to add here’, aside from the faint ticking of (almost) limitless power brings with it Channel Classics’ DSD release of Dan acknowledged, ‘but we will be relays as the PSU ‘boots up’, limitless musical possibilities. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring [Iván Fischer/ introducing a Relentless phono stage Momentum, machined here into two 22kg While dancing around the subject of there are no pops or other The Relentless is the culmination of BFO; CCS SA32112, DSD64] provided – extending the Relentless marque alloy blocks [see pic, p39]. So the Relentless safety, I should also make mention of extraneous noises. Output protection Dan’s life work, a 40-year drive to build an another, entirely separate journey as, across the analogue scene’. And a is also an effective, albeit costly, storage D’Agostino’s AC inlet solution. Not for too, is 100% ‘analogue’ for DC, over- amplifier without compromise – a period once again, the orchestra crafted sound partnering preamp? ‘In practice, heater, raising the temperature in my the Relentless a standard 13/15A IEC temperature and over-current. If you run it during which I’ve also been lucky enough to shapes of breathtaking earthly beauty, the current HD preamp [see p38] is listening room by 5oC over a 48hr period. mains socket, instead the rear of the amp into a short it will shut off. Or your speaker audition and lab test amplifiers from every with fresh timbres and structures of the result of early research on the includes three 500A lugs wires may melt, whichever occurs first. corner of the globe. So when I was finally unlikely physicality. As befits the work of Relentless preamp which, itself, is an DO NOT TOUCH to which the live, neutral face-to-face with the green glow from this composer, the musicians interlocked ongoing project, due for release at Much of what I have ‘A crushing and earth connections are THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY a pair of these toasty- to create a single, huge this year’s Munich High End in May.’ described is readily force deployed cranked very tightly into Let’s cut to the chase: this past month the warm monoblocks it was percussion instrument, The Relentless is clearly Dan’s identifiable from our ‘lid off’ place [see p41]. A torque rumour mill was working overtime and just impossible not to hear the ‘The intrusion from the resonant might most determined amplifier to date, shot [p36]. While I absolutely with exquisite wrench is provided for about every audiophile I know was asking man’s life-long voyage, of the tympani to the including the MRA model that he do not recommend lifting the purpose, Dan’s view ‘so just how good are these amplifiers?’. his ambition and his between source shrill interjection of the developed while at Krell Industries. the lid, neither is this an delicacy’ being ‘enthusiasts can use Certainly, I had the luxury of living with personality expressed in and ears has piccolo. And the silence! Dan agreed as much during our inelegant pressed metal whatever AC mains cable these behemoths for longer than is decent, every note played. Breathtaking – as the vital, conversation, but as a man known top plate. It’s another milled-from-solid they like here, or even wire straight to a but to merely describe their sound in There’s a little of Dan been eliminated’ rhythmic contortions of to all as an innovator and breaker of interlocking section, complete with six fusebox’. There’s a note in the packing the hi-fi vernacular is perilously close to in every one of these hand- brass, winds and strings boundaries, it is tempting to think decorative vents, and secured in place crate recommending that purchasers have missing the point. It would be like defining assembled amplifiers. So you are not just lapsed into moments of reflection, so the that something even bigger, more by just two large Allen bolts at the rear. a qualified electrician on hand to wire-up a McLaren Speedtail by its top speed or invited to audition a sound – rather, you ambience of Budapest’s Millennium City powerful, more outrageous... might Release these and the top the 120V/240V connections. A thick Delrin the top notes of that 2003 Sassicaia I have are treated to an experience where once- Palace of Arts was revealed. Caught in the still be a possibility. surface slides out. box is supplied that bolts into position, tucked away in the cellar by the DNA of its familiar albums are transformed as you are moment, the urge to lift my head towards ‘We have no plans for anything covering all contacts at AC mains potential. Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. chaperoned along their musical journey. the invisible ceiling was irresistible. more ambitious just yet’, said Dan, Ever resourceful, this torque wrench also Yes, the Relentless paints an astonishing By now the Relentless was straining ‘But never say never!’. services D’Agostino’s huge gold-plated musical picture – one bursting with ripe DARK DESERT HIGHWAY at the leash, urging me to order up some speaker outlets, allowing you detail, with unprecedented grip and slam, And by familiar, I mean very familiar. I fireworks from the Melco’s menu. The to crush your favoured and with a seemingly limitless palette of dialled up the 2001 remix of The Eagles’ 2014 remaster of Deep Purple’s 1972 colours that depict every twist and turn in Hotel California [192kHz rip from DVD-A] Made In Japan [Universal 0602537719365; harmonic accent. And that sense of latent and with only the slightest hesitation 96kHz FLAC] features the band’s legendary power that hangs over every piece of music from Melco’s music library, that iconic ‘mkII’ lineup recorded live in Osaka is so palpable that I’d hesitate to define its opening chord progression rang into the with, famously, ‘everything louder than dynamic envelope, its untapped reserve, as room, heard countless times before but everything else’. The Relentless thrusts you merely ‘unburstable’. somehow fresher now, more vibrant, perilously close to the action as ‘Machine The Relentless represents a crushing intense and beguiling. This is music taking Head’, ‘Highway Star’ and ‘Space Truckin’’ force deployed with exquisite delicacy – a form, achieving a physicality that is not are all thrashed out with casual disregard 15lb hammer wielded with the precision just reaching out to touch you (or pound to both hearing and syncopation. you in the case of Massive Attack or Yello) LEFT: Each balanced side of the Relentless but take you by the arm, embrace you and HEAVY METAL AMP (positive and negative-going) comprises gently draw you from the audience to the Blackmore is gunning his Stratocaster like a four modules. Each of these has eight stage. So there I was, admiring the layered man possessed while Jon Lord’s organ is a complementary pairs of bipolar power sound of Walsh and Felder’s guitar solos frenzy of feedback – the perfect backdrop transistors from ON Semiconductor. This adds while the faint draft from Henley’s cymbals to Ian Gillan’s barely-controlled screaming. up to 128 devices per mono amplifier! raised the hairs on the back of my neck. They don’t make ’em like this any more,
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One thing is for certain: this amplifier is the most powerful BELOW: Simplified mechanical my life – and I have been blessed with – more accurately, the most load-tolerant – in current hi-fi memory, besting the last-most-powerful amplifier, Musical drawing indicates the complexity exposure to some of the finest privately- Fidelity’s Tri-Vista kW [HFN Aug ’03]. D’Agostino quotes 1.5kW/ of the clockface meter and the owned installations on the planet. It is 8ohm doubling to 3kW/4ohm and 6kW/2ohm although we scale of the faceplate and 45kg not restricted to one aspect of the sound, obtained a slightly higher 1.605kW/8ohm and a slightly lower alloy/copper heatsinks. Note the such as bass slam or dynamic contrasts. 2.73kW/4ohm. Not that 2.7kW can realistically be described as ‘low’ for, under dynamic conditions, the Relentless’s massive Delrin clamp into which drop Rather, it affects everything, and those who power supply serves up 1.74kW, 3.35kW, 6.36kW and 11.325kW the six PSU reservoir capacitors have lived with either Krell or D’Agostino into 8, 4, 2 and 1ohm loads, respectively, the latter equivalent to [immediate right] electronics will recognise the sound’s 106.4A for 10msec at <1% THD [see Graph 1, below]. Yes, over character – only more of it. 100A! (D’Agostino quotes ‘400A peak’ but no period, frequency Massive soundstage, super-fast or THD limit is specified). However you look at it, the Relentless will surely drive any high-end loudspeaker without pause transients, punch where needed, finesse as (figuratively and literally – neither DC, over-current or thermal required. What’s different is the notion of protection was tripped during these in-depth lab tests). unbridled possibility. It’s as if a whole stage Output impedance is close to the specified 0.03ohm at of intrusion between source and ears has 0.04ohm from 20Hz-10kHz, rising thereafter to 0.06ohm/ 100kHz and 0.335ohm/100kHz. The frequency response follows been eliminated. It needs to be heard, ABOVE: Custom loudspeaker terminals suit with a very gentle treble roll-off amounting to –0.5dB/10kHz, before anyone – like the idiot trolls I’ve seen are supplied with a special tool to crank –1.1dB/20kHz down to –7.6dB/100kHz (identical in both units) online – condemns it as an irrelevance them tight against spade or bare wire just as distortion hovers at a minimum of 0.0009% at 1W from whether for price, size, weight or other terminations [the same tool is used to 5Hz-200Hz, rising very gently to 0.0013%/1kHz, then 0.0035%/ 10kHz and 0.006%/20kHz [see Graph 2, below]. Versus output, trait. Rather, the Relentless needs to be bolt-down the AC mains cable – see left]. distortion rises very gently indeed, reaching 0.005% through appreciated for doing one thing without A single balanced XLR input is fitted bass and midrange at 100W/8ohm and 0.03% at 1kW/8ohm. any display of restraint: it is showing us Bearing in mind the size of the PSU, noise is low at just –75dBV what is possible, and for that I salute it. levels (ever cautious of the 800 D3’s and the A-wtd S/N wide at 91dB (re. 0dBW). PM 1kW maximum unclipped power ANDREW AUDITIONS handling), the amps handle it with As one might hope, given their price, aplomb. Brass and percussion are mass, sheer size and prodigious power delivered with a gorgeous edge, output, writes Andrew Everard, the each other’s moves, and it’s all then again that inexhaustible power Relentless amps have the wherewithal to presented with so little effort from and total control as the music whirls make almost any electronics we’ve had the electronics, making other amps and swirls to its conclusion. through editor PM’s listening room sound sound like they’re trying too hard. somewhat limited if not lacklustre. Driving SUBTLETY AND SLAM but with the Relentless in tow and my trusty Manufacturers, marketing types and, the B&W 800 D3 speakers – careful with OUT OF THE GATES Yet these massive monoblocks can B&W 800 D3s [HFN Oct ’16] being warmed yes, reviewers, bandy about terms like that volume control! – it’s clear from the These amps really do that ‘from apply the most delicate of touches to within an inch of their voice coils, I was ‘cost-no-object’ and ‘zero-compromise’ first notes of Foy Vance’s ‘She Burns’ from the first note’ thing, the opening to Britten’s ‘Moonlight’ [Four Sea back to my youth, with denim, hair – lots with abandon. We should leave that to his The Wild Swan set [Gingerbread Man of the second movement of Elgar’s Interludes Op. 33a, Bernstein/New ABOVE: Dynamic power output versus distortion into of hair – inhaling the heady atmosphere of the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini, as Records/Atlantic 554739], that we’re on to Symphony No 1 [Barenboim/ York Phil; Sony Classical SS 87981, 8ohm (black trace), 4ohm (red), 2ohm (blue) and the Hammy Odeon. Over to you, Ken... rarely has it ever been realised in audio. something special. Staatskapelle Berlin; Decca 478 DSD64], with its rich, velvety string 1ohm (green) speaker loads. Max. current is 106A (!) Aside from some unfeasible, never-to-be It’s not just the wide-open, crisply- 9353], has that immediate sense of textures, before unleashing the KEN ON RELENTLESS produced designs with €1m price tags that focused soundstage, and the jaw-dropping the presence of the orchestra and power with no less control for the In any field, writes Ken Kessler, on rare turn up at shows, I can think of no other levels of detail and timbral texture: when the venue even before the music ‘Storm’ interlude. With beautifully and therefore memorable occasions, we amplifier in my half-century-plus in audio that deep, deep bassline kicks in, it does starts. From there on the sound just ripe brass, the layers of the orchestra get to experience what are close-to-once- which even approaches so with both solidity and builds, with percussion especially raging with each other, and in-a-lifetime events. For a golfer, it’s that the sheer chutzpah definition. There’s not a vivid, such as in the way cymbals skittering strings and woodwinds, first hole-in-one. A fisherman? Landing a demonstrated by Dan’s ‘The deep hint of cartoonish bloom clash and then are instantly muted. the piece builds to an explosive, massive swordfish. Mine have included Relentless monoblocks. masquerading as extension That same magical suggestion literally sofa-shaking conclusion. driving the Bugatti Veyron and seeing The bassline kicks – instead we get sheer, of the scale and acoustic is readily Kinks play live. They may be superseded NO COMPROMISE in with solidity effortless power. apparent in Masaaki Suzuki’s HI-FI NEWS VERDICT some day – I await the Bugatti Chiron with Dan has been threatening With another favourite recordings of Bach for the organ I am typically wary of ‘great as much hope as expectation – but the to produce a true, no-limits tester, the Espen Eriksen [BIS 2241], as is the delicious sense ABOVE: Distortion versus extended frequency and definition’ expectations’ because they may D’Agostino Relentless amplifier will be a amplifier for as long as I Trio’s ‘In The Mountains’, of the air being moved through the (1W/8ohm, black; 100W/8ohm, red) just as easily resolve into dismay. tough act to follow. have known him. This is it. What I heard from Never Ending January [Rune pipes, not to mention the sheer Not so here, for the anticipation For me, the Relentless also represents a the Relentless amps do was – without any Grammofon RCD 2173; 96kHz/24-bit], size of the sound of the Garnier and auto-suggestion planted into HI-FI NEWS SPECIFICATIONS sort of continuity if not closure, as the very notion of hyperbole – demonstrate what what the Relentless monoblocks deliver is instrument in the chapel of Kobe’s the minds of eager audiophiles first time I ever heard what Dan D’Agostino sound without power limitations can be. about as close as you’re ever going to get Shoin University. Power output (<1% THD, 8/4ohm) 1605W / 2730W the world over by the astonishing could do was another memorable event: This is not to suggest for a moment that to a live experience, with that real ‘listen There’s never any shortage Dynamic power (<1% THD, 8/4/2/1ohm) 1740W/3350W/6360W/11325W scale and price of these amplifiers listening to the original Apogee Full Range one cannot live with less; neither is it to around the trio’ sense of performance. of musicality or expression here: Output impedance (20Hz–20kHz) 0.039–0.060ohm is realised in every facet of their Loudspeaker System, driven by his massive insinuate that there are no other systems Andreas Bye’s drums, opening the track, witness the slow build of ‘The performance. Just as their sound Freq. response (20Hz–20kHz/100kHz) +0.0dB to –1.1dB/–7.6dB Krells [HFN Sept ’85]. so blissfully free of constraint. That said, are big and sonorous, but oh so tight, Lars Carousel Waltz’ from The John is forever etched in my memory, Input sensitivity (for 0dBW/1.5kW) 139mV / 5335mV (balanced) Nothing, however, prepared me for one they are few in number, and must be built Tormod Jenset’s bass is rich and resonant Wilson Orchestra’s Rodgers & their 11kW will be permanently specific element of the Relentless, which around the most sensitive of speakers. The with fine snap, and the weight and Hammerstein At The Movies [EMI A-wtd S/N ratio (re. 0dBW/1.5kW) 90.7dB / 122.5dB scorched into the record books! may come to define both the amplifier’s Relentless needs no such accommodation. presence of Eriksen’s piano is remarkable. Classics 50999 3 19301 2 3]. Distortion (20Hz-20kHz, 10W/8ohm) 0.0025–0.016% signature sound and what it represents in From the first notes, the liberation of What can sound overblown and a little There’s a real sense of expectation Sound Quality: 95% Power consumption (Standy/Idle) 35W / 512W
the evolution of high-end audio. And it has the sound through these behemoths is forced elsewhere is here just a trio of as the piece spins into motion, and if 0 ------100 Dimensions (WHD) / Weight (each) 572x280x826mm / 258kg everything to do with unbridled power. something I had never heard before in musicians locked together and anticipating you advance the volume to thrilling
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