musicality, tone, build quality

lack of bass

Great sounding litte amp. I have it paired up with vandersteen 1bs in my bedroom replacing a hr avr25 mkII.
Beautiful sounding amp, the sound it produces is very musical. Much more musical (ifs thats possible) then any solid state amp I've owned.
One problem is its a bad combination with the vandersteen 1bs. The vandys are already light in the bass and so is this amp. the sound on heavy bass music, i.e. steve wonder, is yikes. Its like listening to a new song. On classical and other types of music that don't have so much bass it sings.
Its a grreat amp but the lack of bass issue will make me sell it and move up to one of its bigger brothers in hope of getting the same musicality with more bass!

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