highend, hifi, lowend?

[samsagaz]

Sorry for my "Stupid" question, but what is the mainly diference between these kind of amps?

i know that mainly is the "price" but inside of the case, what is the diference?

Hope you guys aunderstand my english!

[richie00boy]

in some cases, the amount of snake oil included with the item, more oil, or particularly slippery oil, the higher the price

for more sane gear, usually the more expensive stuff is over-engineered, with better cosmetics too

[darkfenriz]

Distortion (THD), signal to noise ratio (SNR), ability to drive different speakers (damping factor, current capability).
Interestingly, high end means virtually nothing in engineering language, but hifi, as an acronyme of 'high fidelity' means that distortion is low. One at least has to measure distortion

[samsagaz]

i noticed a lot of called "low end" amps that have the same THD and in some cases, better SNR than some called HIFI :S

maybe the owners pages lie.....

is for me really hard to understand all this things.. and more because my native lang is spanish, and i really cant find too much info abt amps in my native lang

[darkfenriz]

Some have beautiful cases, large transformers, audiophile capacitors, but electronic circuit is shi+ .
Also, who calles their own product low-end?

[myhrrhleine]

High Fidelity is a very old (decades old) term.
It meant a great deal long ago.

The quality of a product cannot be determined by such labels today.
Measured specs don't tell you much either.

Why distortion is a certain amout tells you more than just a number.

[Mike Gergen]

There are those that will say the manufacturers are trying to catch up to what is posted on this and other forums. From that definition you can say that this here is hi-end.

And with that statement and 1 Euro you can buy a cup of coffee. Take it for what it's worth.
Mike

[phn]

Tone controls are a no-no in high-end audio. When people realize that their $10,000 amp sounds like s*it, they get some high-price semi-balanced interconnects to improve the sound. A semi-balanced interconnect has higher capacitance than a coax-type interconnect, which attenuates the higher frequencies. A high-price interconnect is nothing more than a high-price tone control. (Cover the tweeter on your speaker with your hand. Now remove it. Sounds better, eh?) So after having spent a few more thousands, the owner of the $10,000 amp finally has an amp that sounds as good as a $200 amp with those hated tone controls.

At least that's how I understand it.

[ash_dac]

Hi,

Well the td1521 is Hi-fi according to IEC 268 and DIN 45500

http://www.oersted.dtu.dk/English/re...acility01.aspx

The hifi magazine I used to read mentions that if the amp' weighs alot it's probably a good quality amp' . So heavy equals hifi . Kinda sum's up this hifi magazine I used to read which seems to have gone downhill pretty fast IMO.

Paying for metal..

[Kent Smith]

It's kinda funny how anything very expensive is "High end", no matter what it sounds like! I guess High-end just means expensive....