So I asked a retailer over the weekend what they think the expected price will be for the new amps, and they came back with around US$8000 a pair, although obviously there’s no official price yet.
Was hoping personally they would be cheaper than that, was excited to get them later in the year, but at that price I doubt it now…
@Geoff
At this time, neither the official release date nor the official pricing has been finalized.
However, the current expectation is that the pair of monoblock amplifiers will be priced at around USD 8,000, with a tentative release planned for around October.
Please note that both the pricing and release schedule are subject to change until officially announced.
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thanks 
That priced me out unfortunately.
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Thank you for your interest and feedback.
The RA80 is a monoblock amplifier that we have developed with great care and attention to detail, and we are very proud of the result. We truly appreciate your interest in the product.
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Looks very interesting . It will work with wirh the 151 without anything but cables??? No Pre-amp for best Results requiered?? Peter😎
RS 151 has very potent balanced analog outputs, that should work just fine.
But the price is extreme and i doubt that the sound quality of Hypex Nilai equipped amps wil be reached 
Yes, the RA80 can be connected directly to the RS151 without the need for a separate preamplifier, just like the RA180 and RA280.
The RS151 provides a high-quality analog output stage with sufficient output level, allowing it to drive the RA80 directly and achieve excellent performance.
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What do you mean by SQ?
SQ is going to be subjective.
I would imagine the RA80 to be cleaner and neutral.
I would also be curious of the switching frequency.
So far the fastest GaN amp that I know of has a switching frequency of 1.1MHz. That’s the Orchard Audio Starkrimson 25.
How much of an impact it has is always open to debate.
You would imagine? Well i do not and this is why.
Hifi Rose is a hobby company that keeps its designs secret and refuses to fix problems at a fair price. They only change complete modules at a high price,.
Then you have Bruno Putzeys, an engineer with a long lasting career at an electronic multinational. He is considered a class D guru and discusses his designs openly. Just like people with a high education should. His latest field of work is Mola Mola
Yes, our Mikey has a flourishing fantasy. It is very penetrating, annoying all members of this forum with it.
Lets set aside Bonte who’s still mad his best bud Boris got himself tossed for being a bit of a prat.
You call this a hobby brand because it ‘refuses to fix the problem at a fair price’.
You also claim they keep their design a ‘secret’ because they don’t release their schematics to the public.
Both statements are already proven false.
First lets talk about the issue of the blown board that is outside of warranty.
They don’t have the unit so they don’t know what is wrong with it. Based on what the customer has said… they quoted him a price. Their price to take the unit apart, look at the board(s) to see where the problem occurred and most likely do a board swap and send the defective board back to Rose in Korea. How much does the main board cost?
Its still cheaper than a new unit.
While the OP went to a local guy. The local guy quoted him a price without knowing what needs to be replaced. Who was providing a better service?
Then you talk about Rose not releasing schematics of their current products.
Really who does that? You don’t see them. You see designs of older models which are then used by Chi-Fi companies to make clones of expensive units where the design is 30yrs old or older.
Can you go out and get the circuit diagrams and BoMs for a Marantz 10?
Those designs are considered a company’s IP (Intellectual Property)
Does Mola Mola release the schematics of their designs? I doubt it.
Can you get the circuit design for Bruno’s Purifi eval boards? I don’t see it.
They may provide it to companies that want to OEM the board and their products.
So if you want to call out Rose, lets call out Orchard Audio which is run by one guy Leo. Or how about on the other end Marantz. They don’t release their designs.
Oh and Lets talk about Lyngdorf, @Bonte’s favorite. C’mon Bonte, I’d love to see a copy of their board layouts and BoM. Do you think you can get that for me? How about Eversolo? Yeah didn’t think so.
Now lets get back to the topic of discussion the RA 80.
You always want to have everything and do nothing for it. You should always put the fillet pieces in your mouth! It’s a miracle that you still chew at all. 
Post your mustard for every comment, which many do not want to hear at all.
I am fully aware of this market strategy and it is for me the dependence on the company from which you buy such a device. I find this policy absolutely destible towards the buyers. The EU is no good, but they are now taking action against it.
It’s all about profit, control and a completely changed production world. The manufacturer prefers to exchange boards for thousands of euros instead of components for 50 cents has tangible, often frustrating reasons.
- The business model “Spare parts monopoly”
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Planned obsolescence: Companies want you to buy new instead of repairing.
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Turnover by service: The sale of the device is only the first profit. The exclusive repairs in authorized workshops are a huge source of income.
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Board replacement brings money: A workshop earns more on a 1100 euro board plus 100 euros in labor than on a 50 cent resistance and two hours of troubleshooting.
- Economic efficiency and the time factor
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Extensive working time: Troubleshooting at component level often takes hours. A technician in Germany quickly costs 80 to 120 euros per hour.
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Cheap module: Replacing an entire circuit board often takes only 15 minutes. For the manufacturer, it is computationally cheaper to leave untrained personnel boards stuck than to have high-paid electronics technicians look for the error.
- Technical Hurdles (The Excuse of Industry)
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SMD construction: Today’s components are tiny (often smaller than a pinhead) and multi-layer (multilayer boards). Without a microscope and special solding stations, even a professional can hardly fix it anymore.
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Integrated software: Often it is not the component that is physically broken, but a chip is locked. Many modern boards have “software locks” - the components must be digitally married by manufacturer software. Without this software, the wiring diagram is of no use.
- Fear of cloning and liability
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Intestual property: The fear of cheap copies from China is gigantic today. A published schematic is like an open cookbook for product pirates.
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Safety craze: Manufacturers argue that laymen could cause fires when tinkering with power supplies or batteries (e.g. lithium-ion). To avoid liability lawsuits, they seal everything off.
The bright spot: The "Right to Repair"
There is resistance. The EU has launched the right to repair. Manufacturers of certain household appliances and electronics must now provide repair manuals and spare parts for several years. For niche high-end audio (such as Marantz or McIntosh), however, this often does not fully work through.
So I’m absolutely right: it’s a pure money and control machine at the expense of the environment and your wallet.
I’ve typed that many times, with other topics!
And also this post, is Tacheles and not “Rumgeeiere”!
Untrained staff
Doesn’t that sound familiar to you? You read everything and give your mustard everywhere. Then you should certainly have noticed in this forum that many have the idea why the software still does not work as stable as with EverSolo.
Conclusion:
You buy an expensive device, put your trust in the company philosophy and get a nice device, which software technically lags behind other brands by years and if something breaks down (which is of course quite normal), the customer (buyer) is milked again.
Therefore, radio & television technicians are still true experts today and not just untrained staff, which can only exchange entire circuit boards.
If you want, you can read it through. But please spare me your comment, I have absolutely no desire for it.
Wow Bonte,
So what you’re saying is that you as an owner of a Lyngdorf can’t get the schematics and BoM from Lyngdorf?
Shocking!
You’re blathering on when you’ve already conceded the point.
Hypex/Mola Mola employ electrical engineers that analyse defects and repair on component level.
Hypex whitebook section, mainly by Bruno, maybe the base on wich Hifi Rose designs their stuff Hypex support downloads
Go ahead and read how class D actually works
Uhm do you understand what is meant by the schematics to a specific product?
Did you look at the docs that are downloadable on that page?
Clearly you don’t know what you’re looking at or what the difference is between a white paper describing the theory of an amp versus an actual product.
At the same time, Purify sells reference amp boards. Do you understand what those are and why they exist? You can go out to digikey and buy TI reference boards too.
Smegel, do no insult me personally
well there you go for the base hypex model from2016