DALI Gravity amplifier
Aschaub
amplifier reviewed in issue 105 of "The Absolute Sound," I would like
to get some information on the following topics:
1. What makes the design or implementation of the DALI so much better
than other, all-Class A solid-state amplifiers such as the Pass Aleph
0 or older Spectral DMA-200?
2. What could possibly warrant the $45,000 price tag? (At least the
~$89,000 Ongaku uses hand-wound, all-silver transformers requiring
many person-hours of skilled labor.)
3. How does it sound (to someone besides Robert E. Greene)?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
P. S. At $45,000, perhaps they should call it the DALI "Antigravity"
amplifier. :-)
Neil Blanchard
(Aschaub) writes:
>1. What makes the design or implementation of the DALI so much better
>than other, all-Class A solid-state amplifiers such as the Pass Aleph
>0 or older Spectral DMA-200?
>2. What could possibly warrant the $45,000 price tag? (At least the
>~$89,000 Ongaku uses hand-wound, all-silver transformers requiring
>many person-hours of skilled labor.)
>P. S. At $45,000, perhaps they should call it the DALI "Antigravity"
>amplifier. :-)
LOL!!
I wondered a lot of the same things you did. REG is the same reviewer
would loved the $400 Mordant-Short speakers in the previous issue!
(BTW, has anyone else heard these?) He wrote nothing that would seem
to indicated the Dali's actually being worth that much money. It DID
have massively thick machined cases, but how this affects the sound,
or why they couldn't find a cheaper way to pull this off, I don't
know.
Neil Blanchard
Arve Bersvendsen
says...
>P. S. At $45,000, perhaps they should call it the DALI "Antigravity"
>amplifier. :-)
Whoaaahhh... that's a rather stiff price for the Dali Gravity, since
it's about equal to $16000 here in Norway ...
Can ANYTHING warrant a +$15000 price tag ?
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