hifinutt
21-07-2013, 20:14
purchased from new these beautiful monoblocks are now available due to upgrade
boxed in excellent condition
this is from a review
Yet, as soon as you fire the MB-200s up you realise that there’s something special going on. There’s an instantaneous and lucid clarity that revels in instrumental detail without obstructing the musical flow: They’re clean and quick and clear, bold without being brash and crisp without being overstated. They’re also rather more powerful than the 200 Watt tag suggests, and I used them with a host of different speakers, ranging from the Goldmund Logos 1 and Spendor SA1 to the Eben Ayra C1, the Usher 6371 and Gershman Sonogram. The sheer variety on show there should tell you something about these amps’ unflappable character. Indeed, the only time I heard them in any discomfort was driving the ultra critical and clinically revealing MartinLogan CLX fullrange electrostatics, a combination that sounded uncharacteristically threadbare and strained through the upper registers. Neither product exhibits such tendencies in other company, making me wonder whether the Belles are more at home with more conventional loads than that presented by the big ‘stats. Certainly, none of the dynamic speakers presented the amp with any problems and those requiring a tight grip on an extended bottom (yes Gershman, you know who you are) or a little extra welly to wake them up occasionally (yes, yes Logos, that would be you) received exactly what was required – and more besides. Indeed, while they’ve been in residence the Belles have become something akin to the “go-to guys” in my current amp stable, simply because they seem to fit effortlessly into so many system situations.
3300 for the pair collected
photos to follow
boxed in excellent condition
this is from a review
Yet, as soon as you fire the MB-200s up you realise that there’s something special going on. There’s an instantaneous and lucid clarity that revels in instrumental detail without obstructing the musical flow: They’re clean and quick and clear, bold without being brash and crisp without being overstated. They’re also rather more powerful than the 200 Watt tag suggests, and I used them with a host of different speakers, ranging from the Goldmund Logos 1 and Spendor SA1 to the Eben Ayra C1, the Usher 6371 and Gershman Sonogram. The sheer variety on show there should tell you something about these amps’ unflappable character. Indeed, the only time I heard them in any discomfort was driving the ultra critical and clinically revealing MartinLogan CLX fullrange electrostatics, a combination that sounded uncharacteristically threadbare and strained through the upper registers. Neither product exhibits such tendencies in other company, making me wonder whether the Belles are more at home with more conventional loads than that presented by the big ‘stats. Certainly, none of the dynamic speakers presented the amp with any problems and those requiring a tight grip on an extended bottom (yes Gershman, you know who you are) or a little extra welly to wake them up occasionally (yes, yes Logos, that would be you) received exactly what was required – and more besides. Indeed, while they’ve been in residence the Belles have become something akin to the “go-to guys” in my current amp stable, simply because they seem to fit effortlessly into so many system situations.
3300 for the pair collected
photos to follow