“Ha-ha-happiness – how could something so clean make such a mess?”- Frazier Chorus. “Hahahahahahahhahahaaaaa. hahhahahhahhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhaaaaaa…… …..ahahahhahhaaaaaaaahhhaaahaaah.” You hear that?  That’s the sound of happiness at the low end.  Not (necessarily) the low quality end, mind.  Just the low spend end.  Upstairs, they’re lugging $x000 muscle amps across empty floors and muttering intelligibly about the state of the economy.  The folk

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Hifi review publication is much like punchline delivery in stand-up comedy: timing is EVERYTHING. The Sensation M901′s development process is an epic tale that has seen this product take nearly two years to come to market. That – and limited production runs – are the predominant reasons why I found myself so eager to review the bigger Virtue Tripath amplifier

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