![]() ![]() "I was immediately taken aback with the level of detail given to this unit. Dude, you HAVE to try the Benchmark in your system (which at the time was going through a gamut of speaker changes as part of a myriad of reviews being done for PF) to which I replied, wow, they have an amp?" "A PF colleague of mine (Steven Lefkowicz) said. I had always thought of them as more of a digital conversion company, and not an amplifier company-until the AHB2 came about." In fact, they are one of the early Audiophile pioneers of USB DACs. "Benchmark has been around for a long time. "In measuring the AHB2 and attempting to confirm its specified very high signal/noise ratio, JA observed nonlinearities in his testing equipment that "haven't affected the measured performance of other amplifiers I've tested, but they were detectable with the AHB2's very low intrinsic distortion and noise." His conclusion: "an extraordinary amplifier.""ĪHB2 - "It's phenomenal! Gobs of power, detail, finesse and control." "In his listening tests, KR discovered "much more apparent low-level detail in already-familiar recordings"-a characteristic he credited to the Benchmark's evident noiselessness-and a tonal balance that "sounded more 'right' than any of. "The AHB2 makes use of THX Corporation's Achromatic Audio Amplifier (AAA) technology, in which a low-power feed-forward amplifier drives a low-bias class-AB output section, the latter energized by a system of class-H power-supply rails that deliver power in response to demand-resulting in an extremely efficient amplifier capable of robust power output." AHB2 - Stereophile Class-A Recommended Component ![]()
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