"StuH" wrote in message
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"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!!

:-)