NVA AP10P

[southall-1998]

I already know how the AP10P sounds. So I'm not nervous!

S;

[_D_S_J_R_]

"It was never Richard Dunn's intention to set me on a chase to find the cheapest tolerable mock-audiophile system one could muster."

The absolute self satisfied ARROGANCE of the man!!!! This kind of poncing does as much to me as Marco does for you Doc!

I've just got myself in doo-doos on the Harbeth HUG, as a chap there with Tron plus other expensive exotica was looking forward to his new speakers (guess how good they'll sound with this little lot!) - as if cheap stuff would actually sound worse to any great degree. I told him I thought a little Denon micro system would probably be as good - it didn't go down well with him - oops!

Mock audiophile indeed - I can now say with confidence that an AP10, power apart, would trounce many a blinged up cr@p special costing thousands, but I suppose it couldn't be called 'audiophile' because it lacks a certain 'character' and 'gravitas?'

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

I put up with that as he got the concept of the amp as he could have just dismissed it. There isn't another amp (especially back then) that does what this amp does. It was designed for a bedroom, office or student system.

[_D_S_J_R_]

The Rogers Cadet (back in the 60's) and also the first issue Nait were a similar kind of product I think, but the latter is now up to silly money above its station and I believe it now even has a Zobel network on the output

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

No they weren't. NO ONE has produced a single input amplifiers designed for both headphones and speakers. EXACTLY what a student or a bedroom system wants.

[southall-1998]

Pardon me for the ignorance. What does this 'gravitas' word mean for amps? I've seen people using that word before while discussing amps.

S.

[_D_S_J_R_]

I take it as 'placed above it's station.'

Doc, I understand, but my take was about a simple little amp, with a distillation of the ideas from the larger models in a basic but no less good package.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

It wasn't that motivation it was purely as described, a deliberate attempt to create a student / bedroom system. The motivation came from visiting a customer who had a full Naim - Isobarik system downstairs and an upstairs system of NVA mk1 A40s P50 and a pair of Quad 57 in his bedroom. The bedroom system was far better than the main system which in the end he had to admit. I was taken on the idea of a bedroom system as a marketing idea for young people like Shane, or students in shared houses / digs, or for amorous couples. The thoughts led to the AP10.

[southall-1998]

So that's how the AP10P was born. Very interesting, Doc.

Doc, did that AP10P/Rega Brio-R bake off ever happen??

S.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

It was AP20 - Ask DSJR.