Not at all. The Cubettes were warmly received and many positive comments about them. They played for at least an hour with a Sugden CD player, Macca's P90sa and my A40s up them.Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote:All in all a NVA disaster. Cubettes in the wrong place, A40s couldn't be demed properly because JBLs sounded crap, Phono 2 down on one channel, P90sa and pre amp shoot out inconclusive because of naff amp used. Everyone had a great time apart from NVA
Marco must have been dancing in the isles.
Sorry Brit and Proggy, it was surely a great day, take little notice of my disappointment. Can I do a proper one where I set everything up properly and make sure it is all working as in my suggestion of a trade one.
At this point in the day people were coming and going from the bar and getting food, so I just left them playing some Vetiver. While I was away there'd been a jazz Cd played and when I returned there was a happy half dozen enjoying some Elvis on them. Nobody said they were anything other than a capable little speaker and I think they will have left an impression.
My A40s played for a large chunk of the time, via my Benchmark DAC and the borrowed Sugden CDP. Everyone enjoyed the Snarky Puppy orchestral piece I demoed with, my JBLs were just throwing all their bass down into the springy floor. Someone commented they could feel it from the other side of the room. For much of the day, the LS5 cable and SSC were the cables used, not just with my gear but with others. Nobody had anything less than positive comments about these.
During the preamp shootout I heard comments about the drive the P90sa had compared to the others. As it was however matched with a valve amp, the TVC had it by a nose for me. If they'd all used the NVA amps that might have been different.
Take heart, many people got to hear the fine kit and aside from the technical issue with the phono stage which meant nobody even got to hear it, let alone judge it, I think it was a good day for NVA.
You'll never be happy though until you come along youself and help us manage some of the many compromises we have to make.
I don't think Lurcher would have happy about the power in the venue, nor Colin Topps happy with the room acoustic but nobody's crying over it. I was gutted the phono stage wasn't working and sweated over it with 2 others for a good while to establish neither the deck, preamp or cables was at fault and missing the action elsewhere before conceding defeat.