verifonixIt's not the same. It's the lower powered version of it. In addition, this audiophool thing of trying to deconstruct a product into its component parts, then making preemptive conclusions about it needs to stop. There is more to an amplifier than the topology, which main chip is used, and so on. It drives me crazy with DACs - "Oh it uses XYZ chip, it must be the same as everything else with that chip", when the analog and power supply section is a huge part of DAC quality for example.
This is the same, we should not make presumptions about it 'being the same' as another product using the same core technology.