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Pass Laboratories XA200.8 10th Anniversary Review

In the last ten years, I put a monstrosity of equipment up-stream of the XA200.8 and not only has it been utterly rugged in engineering and indestructible in use, its gentleness towards speakers is unsurpassed. I put it through the 100dB sensitive Destination Vista horn and later on the Pureaudioproject Quintet 15 with Voxativ AC-X  during their respective auditions and the amp was gentle and judicious, never brutal or brittle; the first watt or so required for live performance level playback through these speakers was pristine and rich, never mind it probably never needed to produce the second watt, much less the two hundredth watt for that matter. Of course, for such efficient speakers the $7,650 XA30.8 would’ve sufficed, but the XA 200.8 was so well-engineered it was arguably the most trustworthy and ideal solid-state amplifier to pair to those speakers.

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