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Price Paid:
$200.00
from from a very, very ni Summary:
Let me start by saying that when I came upon this amp, I wasn''t looking for one. It was sitting on the shelf in a fellow audiophile''s office. He had upgraded to separate music / theater systems in his house and no longer needed it. I asked how much, he told me the price and I figured, for that much, no matter what it sounds like, I can''t go wrong.
I took it home and hooked it up to run my mains and center channel. It replaced my favorite main speaker amp up to this point, the NAD 2700THX (still an awesome amp). After turning it on and recalibrating my system, I started hearing more air, a little better detail and best of all, my Energy 5.1e''s no longer had the sightly flabby mid-bass that I thought was inherent to their design. The amp, while not night and day better, did sound better on music.
I then worked it out on all my theater demo material. Again, it just punched the crap out of everything I threw at it. It didn''t start to sound fatigueing at very high volumes as the NAD did once in a great while.
This is an awesome amp - my first Adcom piece for a diehard lifetime NAD owner. Given it''s normal price, you probably couldn''t touch anything that sounds this good in this price range.
My system:
Energy e series speakers (5.1e, 3.1e)
NAD T761 (as processor/pre)
NAD 2700THX (now for rears)
NAD 512 CD
Toshiba 2705 DVD
Pioneer 605 LD
Sony T60 DirecTivo
Monster Power Center 3500
Tara Lab''s Interconnects
Monster CX12 biwire Strengths:
Increadible power, detail and air. Great value! Weaknesses:
As with most other Adcoms, it runs pretty hot and doesn''t have a 12V trigger. Similar Products Used:
NAD, Acurus, Rotel, Marantz, PSB
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