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I've been looking at those too. Please post your thoughts when you get it!

Phil

It arrived early morning yesterday in fine condition. Bin Bin Ltd
have done their best with the invoice ;0) :0) so we'll see what comes
from Customs. Anyway, first things first, its very well built, bit of
a looker (in aluminium case term) and weighs a suitable amount (how
reassuring is a heavy piece of hi-fi!). I set it up last night,
straight off I wasnt impressed, no better than the phono socket I have
on a marantz thats being used by a mate, it did seem to slightly prove
through the night so we'll wait. Keep in mind that I have no tape-out
function so I was doing direct from source so maybe the lack of
buffers has something to do with it? maybe not............This amp can
also act as a pre-amp so I thought its worth a try, input selector, to
bada to dynavox (the dynavox is a power amp with a passive pot).
Turned the dynavox right up, although on full whack theres a hum so I
didnt go that far, and used the bada. Now this is the strange thing,
Im pretty sure it sounds better doing it this way, Im going to have a
good listen over the wkend to try and get a better picture. So, could
this be a pre-amp with a phono output added on using a cheap tranny
card a la cheap SS integrateds?? I'll have to open it up now and have
a butchers.

Mick...

Hmmm.... I'm just down the road from you, in Leyland!

Just modifying my SE 6L6s again... :-)

Your more than welcome to my humble (very humble, first house, poor
graduate) abode to have a listen.

I'll keep an eye out for your results voltage, oh and I dont tempt
me with building from scratch ideas, I have to resist!!


The bada is good but not brilliant, maybe a better pair of cans would
make a big difference. For the money, and the time I spend listening
to it its fine for me.

Just picked up Hi-Fi world, the word is out on these dynavox amps,
although its quoted at £400 from Aff. Valve aka Lim! Ive also noticed
that he's doing a modified version (Svets & 4 silver mica caps) for
alot more money. Oh well, it was nice whilst it lasted!

"StuH" wrote


Just picked up Hi-Fi world, the word is out on these dynavox amps,
although its quoted at £400 from Aff. Valve aka Lim! Ive also noticed
that he's doing a modified version (Svets & 4 silver mica caps) for
alot more money. Oh well, it was nice whilst it lasted!


Interesting

Firstly, I notice there aren't so many on eBay now - just one at silly money
atm (£105 and 3 days to go - see Auction No. 3856161918) and secondly the
Dynavox was advertised at £250 by the Affordable Valve Co in HFW only a
month or two ago!!

I have just changed the valves in one of mine (JJ Tesla EL34s and NOS
Mullard ECF82 driver/splitters) and have to say it's a significant
improvement over the Chinese valves. The sound is much 'rounder' and
'fuller' now with a very strong bass - the Chinese valves are good but have
a slightly 'glassy' overlay to the sound with a somewhat less well-defined
bass.

What *does* make these amps sit up is feeding them from an active Line
Stage - I've got an EAR834L going into the Dynavox and it's like the bloody
thing is on steroids now!!

(Bags of spank!! :-)

"Keith G" wrote in message ...
"StuH" wrote


Just picked up Hi-Fi world, the word is out on these dynavox amps,
although its quoted at £400 from Aff. Valve aka Lim! Ive also noticed
that he's doing a modified version (Svets & 4 silver mica caps) for
alot more money. Oh well, it was nice whilst it lasted!


Interesting

Firstly, I notice there aren't so many on eBay now - just one at silly money
atm (£105 and 3 days to go - see Auction No. 3856161918) and secondly the
Dynavox was advertised at £250 by the Affordable Valve Co in HFW only a
month or two ago!!

I have just changed the valves in one of mine (JJ Tesla EL34s and NOS
Mullard ECF82 driver/splitters) and have to say it's a significant
improvement over the Chinese valves. The sound is much 'rounder' and
'fuller' now with a very strong bass - the Chinese valves are good but have
a slightly 'glassy' overlay to the sound with a somewhat less well-defined
bass.

What *does* make these amps sit up is feeding them from an active Line
Stage - I've got an EAR834L going into the Dynavox and it's like the bloody
thing is on steroids now!!

(Bags of spank!! :-)

I know what you mean, the bada can be used as a pre-amp so I tried it
for a few days, whilst I thought it was a step backwards sound wise it
didnt 'alf give it a shove, talk about power on tap! Ive been looking
at valve pre's and quite fancy that ming da thats in hi-fi world, just
to keep the chinese theme going you understand ;-)

"StuH" wrote in message
om...
"Keith G" wrote


What *does* make these amps sit up is feeding them from an active Line
Stage - I've got an EAR834L going into the Dynavox and it's like the
bloody
thing is on steroids now!!

(Bags of spank!! :-)

I know what you mean, the bada can be used as a pre-amp so I tried it
for a few days, whilst I thought it was a step backwards sound wise it
didnt 'alf give it a shove, talk about power on tap! Ive been looking
at valve pre's and quite fancy that ming da thats in hi-fi world, just
to keep the chinese theme going you understand ;-)


OK, but in reality the Dynavox isn't any more Chinese than, say, a NAD - as
it was designed in Germany by a German (Audio Institute AFAIK?) and is built
in China. As such, I wouldn't really call it 'Chinese'....??? I would also
say, much as I like Phil's Ming Da phono, I'm not into 'cosmetics' too
much - I prefer the money to go on the components and these things are well
cheap enough compared to their 'Western' counterparts!

(Or put it another way, most of my gear looks like crap generally - too much
polished s/s and gold anodising would be a tad out of place!! :-)

But I have to say, with the line stage on, the Dynavox really is delivering
the goods - I wanted a rig that would tidy up CDs and make them a bit more
'listenable' and, booger I, it's certainly doing that!!

:-)