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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2642897" data-attributes="member: 550915">Blaupunkt built a series of amps several years ago that had compression circuits in them to make for a soft clip.  That said any kind of processing like that built into the amp would pretty much exclude it from true high fidelity use for the simple reason that it will kill the dynamics of the music.The amps I would consider truly high end are nothing more than a quality preamp (with or without crossover, though I wouldn't use the x-over if it had it in favor of an outboard digital unit) and a solid gain block.  Nothing more fancy than that.  From there Class A/B circuitry (possibly Class A preamp), fairly large heatsink and overbuilt power supply.  Looking at the guts and seeing a lot of blue resistors isn't a bad thing either.</blockquote>

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