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Boulder 866

oulder’s 866 is more powerful than the amplifier it replaces, while it’s also electronically and sonically superior — and much better-looking… so we expected Boulder to be charging rather more for it. But it is actually less than its predecessor, thanks to several years of analysis during which Boulder minimised the operations necessary to

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