P801 Power Amp

SmartOne_2000 said:
@Alan March ... I may be imagining things but has the price of the P801 gone up maybe ~US $100 in the past few weeks?
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Our base prices are set in AUD. The P801 price has not changed for some while and the last change was a decrease in price.

However what's happening is the US Dollar is devaluing. Its fallen a good 10% generally, and about 7% specifically against the Australian dollar in the last 6 months. We all know why.

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Our international pricing on the website is dynamic and is updated twice per day for the latest exchange rates. Hence you will see the USD price rise as the US dollar continues to fall. IMO it will continue this trend.
 
Alan March said:
Hi

Absolutely not. The FTC tests are an irrelevant joke. They are simply not fit for purpose and dont help the consumer.
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Understandable ... so what happens [hypothetically] if a reviewer tests your new amps per this new standard and finds issues and publishes the results. Will you ignore the results or attempt to fix whatever issues they may have found? The reason I ask this is that many amplifier manufacturers are gearing up to have their latest amp designs pass tested using the new FTC standard, and so will major reviewers like Audioholics as well.

I believe the reason these tests exist is not to see if an amp can play music reliably into all loads, but to ensure the amps are robustly designed for extended reliability over many years, if not decades, all for the sake and benefit of the consumer. This weeds out lesser designs that would never be sold to the public (hopefully).
 
SmartOne_2000 said:
Understandable ... so what happens [hypothetically] if a reviewer tests your new amps per this new standard and finds issues and publishes the results. Will you ignore the results or attempt to fix whatever issues they may have found? The reason I ask this is that many amplifier manufacturers are gearing up to have their latest amp designs pass tested using the new FTC standard, and so will major reviewers like Audioholics as well.

I believe the reason these tests exist is not to see if an amp can play music reliably into all loads, but to ensure the amps are robustly designed for extended reliability over many years, if not decades, all for the sake and benefit of the consumer. This weeds out lesser designs that would never be sold to the public (hopefully).
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The FTC tests simply dont do what they claim. The tests are meaningless. Conditions that simply dont exist in real world use.

Any informed reviewer will know this. I would avoid reviews from people who use this test as it demonstrates their lack of understanding of the subject.

The FTC tests do not test reliability. A 5 minute test on one unit does not in any way demonstrate long term reliability of the design.

Like most manufacturers, we will carry on ignoring the tests as has been the case for many decades. Seriously, no one, consumers or manufacturers pay any attention. They have no credibility and are unenforceable.

They do not provide consumers with any useful or meaningful information regarding performance or reliability.

The tests dont help the consumer
 
Understood...would you mind answering a query I posted in the Kuoro forum a while ago, regarding its performance relative to the Ukkonen? When is the release date of this speaker? Thanks!
 
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