Κώστας Φ.
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- Μηνύματα
- 8.978
- Reaction score
- 895
Preamp £1450
Poweramp £2650 (pair)
"Anatek Acoustics (previously Anatek Audio, by the way) is a young English audio company, based in Worthing, South England. The A50 was their first product, and was very positively reviewed, not only by me. The amp is based on a patented circuit that combines Class A, non switching behaviour with high efficiency, making it run as cool as a 'normal' amp, but sounding like a real Class A one. It impressed me and I still own my A50 and use it with pleasure. I did modify it, however, as I am an incurable tweaker and the amp had some minor weaknesses. The main problem was a bad volume control, which I replaced with a very nice Dact CT2 stepped attenuator. That made a positive difference. Even better was my next tweak: replacing the input capacitors with ClarityCap SA's.
Although tweaking is fun, it is also risky and quite a bit of work. That's why I was especially interested in the MB50 power amps. They are based on the same clever circuit, but built with much higher quality components. There's a price to pay for that however, as the monoblocks are each about the same price as the A50 integrated, while delivering the same power into 8 ohm, and a bit more into 4. That does add up to twice the price of the integrated, just for the power amps.
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Conclusion
I can be very short about the preamp: excellent as it sounds, I just think it is far too expensive for what it is. There are equally good passive preamps available for much less; the Django just one of them. The monoblocks, however, are a different story. They're not cheap either, but worth every penny in my opinion. They have the ability to open up a system and bring out the best in all partnering equipment. These elegant little monoblocks have a way of drawing you into the music that is highly addictive, without ever drawing attention to themselves. If you need a lot of power they obviously won't do, but if 50 Watts is enough for you then these are as fine a pair of poweramps as you are likely to find at this price. Very highly recommended."
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