Fretless wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 8:19 pm

quickie2 wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 8:04 pm Twas I. Won't win though

You never know.

I have been the sole bidder on a couple of Grado cartridges and got them both for a very low price.

Would be nice.

This looks like a very early example btw as made in Peterborough, so probably pre 1985

Twas I. Won't win though

Quite fancy this having owned one many moons ago.

Did anyone else build the AP20 kit sold by Hifi News and record review for £179.?

Nice job.

It's been a long time since I played around with any NVA amps, but fwiw I never found increasing the power supply capacitance over a pair of 4700 or 6800uf caps worth doing, and can actually make the amps sound worse ime.

I've never got on with mass loaded stands either Tried a fair few including Cliff Stone Foundation, Target R series etc with lots of different speakers and rooms, but always come back to open frame ones, the lighter the better imo. For me mass loading always messes up the Bass. While it initially se...

Don't take it to heart Col.... some people are just complete dickheads, and whatever you do it will be always be wrong.

Afaik, the care home that both my parents went into last September are still in outbreak, so as an essential carer I am still doing daily LFT's the same as staff.

Visiting them tomorrow, so must get some more as running low.!

Strangely enough, that's acceptable bling (to me). I've always loved this look, but I assume it was targeted towards Far East tastes. The mono power amps looked awesome too. Yes, made for the Far-East. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/8159/AHAYE4.jpg When NVA shut up shop, I think Peterboroug...

I've got a bit of a soft spot for the earlier amps when Richard moved away from the original bolt up cases of the 80's and started using a combination of aluminium/acrylic/mdf (the original A80 monos with the big Avel Lindberg transformers were a peach) and the bling chrome statement amps in the 90'...