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A 60

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Found this on ebay, from Germany, price 359€:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/nva-A60-Stereo- ... 3a9bbd6e7e

In last pic, under RCA connectors, there is some plugged hole and two smaller holes on both sides. Is it supposed to be like that?
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Re: A 60

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This amp is nearly 25 years old, I would not pay that much for it. The holes are fine, it was an alteration we did to earlier amps, so as I say this amp is from about 1990.

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Re: A 60

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Early NVA power amps had a DIN socket that provided power to the phono stage in the pre-amps, an external PSU was an optional upgrade. The covered hole looks to be where that socket would have been placed.

My A40 stereo amp still has the same DIN socket and I got the PSU to run my P80 preamp.

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^&^^ thanks for info, I'm not gonna buy it, holes made me suspicious. Wanted to know reason for the them.
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Re: A 60

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I don't know when it happened in NVA's history, but the amp boards are very different from the originals now and don't seem to have any temperament that I've noticed (the AP70 I finished off runs at a slightly higher voltage than the lower models but even then, there's huge headroom on the transistors and supply caps used).
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