"Geoff Mackenzie" wrote in message
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"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


Geoff
You are most welcome to this group if you continue to give us
humour/cynicism like that! Made my day.

You don't know Bill Wright in the TV newsgroups do you?


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