no, not blind folded. we ran the audition for several days and each time, the amx won. we would have preferred the beautiful imports because we were seeing the components but we didnt. the catch is, the amx was full of boutique parts like mundorf, paper in oil caps, vishay, etc. whereas the imports have stock parts like,for example,regular nichicon caps in the case of jadis jps2. but even with boutique parts, the amx cost just 1/8 of jadis. it confirms what engineers are saying, pare-pareho lang ang circuitry nyan. the imports cost a lot more because of taxes, duties, marketing, importation cost, beautiful casework, high end mystique cost, etc. and i know if i ABd my sonic frontiers sfl1 se, it would sound dry like the french kora preamp compared with the amx rhapsody.
associated equipment were dynaudio contour 3.4, manley snapper monoblocks, xindak fs-1 speaker cable, transparent music link single ended ic, transparent plus balance ic, synthesis pride cd player, mitchell gyrodec turntable with rb300 tonearm and benz micro ace high output mc cartridge.
