Adcom GFA-555se Stereo Power Amplifier Review
January 16, 2020 § 1 Comment
“The Adcom amplifier’s bass quality is more of the “rolling thunder” variety, making it difficult to hear individual bass strings vibrating. The $4495 Cary SA-200.2 ES and $2999 Benchmark AHB2 amplifiers far outperform the Adcom in the bass, being much more resolved and linear into the deepest bass. The 12 Watt single-ended Valvet amplifier also has greater resolution down low, although it does not offer a challenge to the macro dynamic prowess of the Adcom’s 300 Watts. The Magicos are 4 Ohm speakers.
The GFA-555se offers excellent dynamic performance. One can clearly appreciate the pop or attack when a drum stick hits the snare or hear a rim shot. Low level dynamics, the quiet shifting of intensity of a voice, or the way Brad Paisley changes the force with which he plucks almost every guitar string, is apparent and enjoyable.”
Audiophilepure 
What is the point of comparing the Cary or the Benchmark when, clearly, these are considerably more expensive than the Adcom? Is it to belittle the excellence of the Adcom for what you pay? The Adcom is quite fine and that is the point.
Trying to obscure it by not comparing it to other amp within its price mark only reinforces that the Adcom 555se is quite fine…indeed!
Too many amateurs’ of limited experience or technological know-how are allowed to have access to such equipment and pollute the audio with ignorance.