for more then 40 years i am an audio enthusiast and melomane and music player, had for 5 years even an audio shop in brussels with 2hand equipment and even new , so after years of trial and error and hearing some amplifiers sounding realy bad …i must agree with your experiences of most of yours and made some musician very happy with active box 40s but the v7000 on tads 1102 with heil tweeters play even better, and so went out a bel canto evo6 that cosed 5000 euros…against the 100 euros for the grundig, the only amp that came close was a rogers valve el84 i will soon test the grundig amps on very high efficiency speakers so to avoid clipping at high levels, but to be frankly since i listen to the grundigs i listen more relaxed at low levels and hear all the details, with the bel canto it was like lots of the mics were distorting or clipping!!!and i got nervous and thought it was a problem on the records or the radio but no with th v7000 all came in harmony ,you cannot tell if its a transistor or valve here , even the bass is tremendous quality for such a small amp amazing, i use a camtech 8000q aspassive volume with remote so i have that convenience, and also used a passive active cross over from cerwin vega that filters the amps at 250 hz to drive subs from jbl or atc with amazing results, it was far better then the quad 606 who is rated more watts….there is something with the timbre of the instruments and the scale that is magic and very realistic, and that is missing in most of the amps….25 years ago i had the electrocompaniet class a who was musical beyond the competition, the audio research classic 60 with yamaha ns1000ms had some qualities aswell but still since i am on the grundig v7000 i have 5 of them ,i dropped the search for others i also have the ps 1020 to test , and curious about the cd’s,for now i am running with sony 557 esd and rega io….
so you crazy italien freak most will thingk but for my ears you have made a big point , and when i am rich i will buy your amplifiers gladly to test them and would even be glad to sell them to other audiofreaks old clients customers …i wish you lots and congratulations for such courage to make these statements completely non snobisch and honoust and dam rigcht its looks a bit like the hulda clark protokol in the medical who cures 95% of cancers with herbs etc but its so cheap nobody wants to apply it greets and hope to meet you one day a life soon
bart xxxxxx belgium
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Massimo
yes Massimo
you are a great person , because honoustly i was too snob to test an amplifier that even has no wbt speaker output…and din connections lots of even experienced audiofreaks would pass for it and even not truy it out, but since your opinion on the other equipment is about the same then i experienced like for the rogers or the quads or the B&W’s and the krell , i took it more serious and tried it out another well sounding litlle amp is the myst it worked even better with the rogers ls3/5a then the classic 60…but i never tried the grundig on them since its fairly new these experiences , and i test about one year before i put out an opinion , i also appreciate the site of the polish who modifies cd outputs but didn’t truy yet these modifications , except that i like the atc’s the mid dome is amazing and what so strange with a grundig amp that i listen at more easy listeninglevels so my neighbours are happy , its so clear and high resolution that you don’t need to push the volume loud you can imagine how deceived i am with amplified concerts most of the time horrible , distorted and way too loud since i go to concerts with acoustic instruments like big symphonies from the year of 5 i am used too good sound , the grundig activ 40 i sold at a friend who is building violins …he was astonished by the accuracy of the timbre, he works together with my cousin who is a professioal violin player and plays aswell on a guarnerius and also has an absolute hearing so we are all very critical , i ll let you know more after testing with a 105db/w horn system
my regards bart