"adie" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience of these amps?


Surprised nobody else has jumped in here. Nervous at advancing an opinion
in this NG - I have no technical skill in this field, just an appreciation
of audio reproduction and a decent set of ear'oles. And a large dose of
cyniscism.

And I'm not normally bitchy, but it's been a bad day....

NVA. Nene Valley Audio? Nee Tresham? Had a look/listen some time in the
eighties. Acrylic boxes with not much inside. Sold by people who said "if
you can't hear how perfect it is then you just don't understand". Why do I
think of Ivor Tiefenbrun and Jehova's Witnesses?

An analogy from something I am more familiar with - an old mate, Duggie,
describing the Pobjoy radial engine as fitted to various aircraft in the
1920's or thereabouts - "it never, ever, delivered its rated power and it
caught fire on Tuesdays". Hmmm - that was meant to be a comment abot NVA,
but just remembered my Roksan Xerces, (sp?) which at least gave warning by
running backwards for a while and it may have been Wednesdays.....

From NVA's own info at the time, I recall that the amp was absolutely
perfect, unless you used the wrong speakers. Or speaker leads. Or played
bass too loud. In any of those cases it would self-immolate, voiding your
guarantee. In other words it was totally useless in the real world.

No doubt the designer is still in his garden shed explaing how the rest of
the audio world got it wrong.

Geoff MacK