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I don’t know about you guys, but I see the amp market currently in basically four tiers:
Tier 1: Gryphon, Boulder, Block Audio, Soulution, CH, D’Ag, Dart, Constellation, Goldmund, FM Acoustics, Vitus, MSB, VAC, Kondo, Wavac, etc.
Tier 2: T+A, MBL, VTL, Nagra, Spectral, Esoteric, AudioNet, Rowland, Air Tight, Accuphase, etc.
Tier 3: Luxman, Sim, Pass, Naim, Classe’, Bryston, Hegel, ARC, Ayre, Mcintosh, PS Audio, Audio Arts, etc.
Tier 4: Parasound, Bel Canto, Wyred, Cambridge, NAD, etc.
The marketplace for top tier amps is more crowded than ever with newcomers like Pillium, Block and others.
What are your thoughts on the current amp market?
Will we see a resurgence from brands like Ayre, Accustic Arts (an amp/preamp I had in the store and was floored by their performance) or Zanden or Ypsilon?
Will we see newcomers like Block and others gaining interest or will the stranglehold from the big boys continue to hold?
Tier 1: Gryphon, Boulder, Block Audio, Soulution, CH, D’Ag, Dart, Constellation, Goldmund, FM Acoustics, Vitus, MSB, VAC, Kondo, Wavac, etc.
Tier 2: T+A, MBL, VTL, Nagra, Spectral, Esoteric, AudioNet, Rowland, Air Tight, Accuphase, etc.
Tier 3: Luxman, Sim, Pass, Naim, Classe’, Bryston, Hegel, ARC, Ayre, Mcintosh, PS Audio, Audio Arts, etc.
Tier 4: Parasound, Bel Canto, Wyred, Cambridge, NAD, etc.
The marketplace for top tier amps is more crowded than ever with newcomers like Pillium, Block and others.
What are your thoughts on the current amp market?
Will we see a resurgence from brands like Ayre, Accustic Arts (an amp/preamp I had in the store and was floored by their performance) or Zanden or Ypsilon?
Will we see newcomers like Block and others gaining interest or will the stranglehold from the big boys continue to hold?