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I have read Hi-Fi News Reviews of integrateds

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Plinius_Fan

In Reply to: RE: Check latest Hi-Fi News Reviews of integrateds posted by lancelot on August 16, 2007 at 18:48:10

Reviews in these mags are nothing but are a way to earn money for these mag companies. I have heard the Arcam A80 and the Nad 372.....no comparison what so ever. Yes, the Nad had a lot of bass....it didnt make any music...it was only "sound" for me...no involvement.

The 325bee is even worse...it doesnt even have bass. Its an hollow sounding crappy amp IMO. Arcam A65 instead is a superb musical amp with warm rich midrange, deep bass and crispy airy highs...moreover it makes "music". It keeps you hooked to your listening chair.

Nad is not even a shit of Arcam.

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So all magazine reviews are *paid* for but you know the real truth! Really! NT - lancelot 08:29:43 08/17/07 (1)
NT
- I wrote what I heard personally and what *I knew*... - Plinius_Fan 12:28:31 08/17/07 (0)
  Its up to you to believe or not.
Arcam recently won a bizarre test in my house - author@escapeclause.net 06:16:44 08/17/07 (1)
I recently started a thread about picking new gear, elsewhere in the forum. I own a pair of Linn Ninkas and had lots of problems with some Parasound stuff so I bought a Linn AV5105 for $700 on Audiogon and didn't like the sound. Then I bought a Bryston 3B for $650 on EBay and didn't like the sound. Then I bought a Rotel 980 for $350 (to match my Rotel preamp) and didn't like the sound. Then a friend of mine brought over a dinky Arcam A-60 integrated from about 1979, that he'd picked up at a garage sale for $2. The Arcam sounded AMAZING. Far more detail, far more agility, far more liquid and musical. If not for the facts that it's desperately underpowered and not reliably functional, I'd have simply stuck with it to run my $1000-plus pair of speakers. I just bought an Arcam FMJ-A22 with DAVE module, I'll let you know how it works out when it gets here but I've no doubts, personally....
- RE: Arcam recently won a bizarre test in my house - I.Kill.Hackers 14:23:17 08/19/07 (0)
  I owned an Arcam A65plus for a couple of years and it sounded great. Punchy detailed and sweet. I owned a NAD C320Bee for 2 weeks before I returned it. Lifeless.

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