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EQUIPMENT REPORT<br />
MICHAEL FREMER<br />
darTZeel NHB-458<br />
moNoBlock amplifier<br />
A<br />
recent (unpublished) letter to the editor argued that the<br />
reference for audio perfection is the sound of real instru-<br />
ments in a real space. The writer claimed that, since the<br />
art and/or science of audio is advancing, and because it<br />
is a “scientific truth” that the closer you get to perfection, the less<br />
divergence there is in components, that therefore there should be<br />
less difference in sound among the components listed in Class A<br />
of Stereophile’s “Recommended Components” than among those in<br />
Class B, much less Class C. This should be true of loudspeakers, he<br />
said, but even more true of top-rated amplifiers, since “they inher-<br />
ently have less divergence.”<br />
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