Ok, so we are now a couple of months into life with the messed about with NVA amp amp boards with twin power supplies and built-in separately powered phono stage, so I thought I might try the single-ended pentode amp for a while.
I let it warm up over a one hour time period before letting it loose on a few choice recordings. Oh dear
I know I've done a bloody good job of breathing on the NVA boards, but even so, I was not prepared for the sheer crapness of the sound of valve amp in comparison. In every department, the solid-state amp wiped the floor with it. Great on the one hand, sad on the other, but that's the situation.
If I want to build something with valves that will be able to live in the company of the SS amp, I’m really going to have to go some. Whether I can be arsed is another question entirely. I mean, what would be the point?
EDIT:
Looks like I mentioned earlier in this thread, that the amp built with modded NVA boards knocked the valve amp into a cocked hat. Sometimes you have new baby syndrome and fool yourself into thinking that the latest project beats the earlier one but when you compare again after a few weeks, the differences have a habit of disappearing. Not this time - the difference is more stark than ever.
Somebody’s telling me the latest scandals.
Somebody’s stepping on my plastic sandals. Joe Jackson (1979)
