Forget cables as snakeoil. There's a new snake King in town.


There are a few owners of relatively well-known companies that have such ridiculous amplifiers beliefs, that it boggles the mind. These people are owners of different companies. Not a complete nobody.

Think all cables sound the same? Well I'm here to inform you all amplifiers sound the same too (according to these company owners).

Ryan Charpentier (owner of Ascend audio) thinks an AVR is as good as any other amplifiers and to even spend more money on any dedicated amplifier would be a waste of money. In his words, the noise floor is too low for most systems to distinguish between AVR and another amp.

Dylan (owner of Buckeye) thinks all amplifiers sound the same when "properly designed. To add more context, he thinks his Hypex class D is perfection. Perfect in the sense that it is "100% true to the source material" and cannot be improved any further. Even 500 years from now. 

We have gone from all cables sound the same -> all amplifiers sound the same.

I have nothing else to say because I'm simply speechless.

samureyex

@deep_333 Harsh words but I can't argue against all your valid points.

Buckeye claims all decent amplifiers sound identical. And yet somehow he's proud of the review he got by (Stereophile if I remember correctly). Based on his claims, his would sound identical to every Hypex and Purifi amplifiers out there. So why are you proud of something that is the opposite of unique?

The one that wrote the review gave it quite a praise. The really funny part is, after this review got published, it was found out the review units were faulty. Something was wrong in the upper frequency.

It’s ridiculous to think that property designed amps sound the same, as if Buckeye sounds like Boulder, Constellation, Soulution, etc.  Better parts and engineering sound better…for a price