"Rob" wrote in message
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Bruce Lankford wrote:
"adie" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience of these amps?


About fifteen years ago, there was a shop near my house which sold NVA
and quite a lot of them.
I heard a couple the amps with different speakers and they sounded quite
good to me.
The little amp (perhaps an AP20?) could not drive the ProAcs which I was
using at the time but the bigger amp was well beyond my budget.
A work colleague of mine bought the AP20, won't part with it.



In what way was it unable to drive the Proacs?

I have this (perceived) issue with Dynaudio speakers, and I've only ever
found two amplifiers that sound good - a huge valve amp (sold) and an old
Cambridge power amp (broke under the strain).

However, I've asked on this NG and been advised that any competently
designed amplifier of the past 20 years should sound identical. Not
unanimous, majority.

Rob


Any competently designed amplifier "when used within its design parameters"
should (and will) sound identical. Some loudspeakers present a very severe
load, and consequently some otherwise competent amplifiers will be outside
their design parameters. I don't know of the specific instance of the
Dynaudio 'speakers or the Proacs, but these could well present a more severe
load than the amp was designed for.

S.

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