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ecause of the VAC Statement 452 iQ’s bulk and weight, I drove my Audio Precision SYS2722 system and its host PC (see the January 2008 “As We See It”), test loads, oscilloscopes, cables, and other gear to Michael Fremer’s place for the measurements. The only space available for me to set everything up was in the garage, along the corridor from Michael’s basement listening room. I ran two extension cables from a 20A outlet in the corridor, one for the test system and the other for one of the amplifiers (serial number 1929703). I later repeated some of the testing on the other amplifier, SN 1929702. The graphs in this report show the results with SN 1929702, which has

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