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AGD Tempo in the house

It is very interesting to spend time with amps.  You go to shows or even go to someone's house and listen to and amp and because it isn't on your gear and in your environment, it sounds good but it is insanely difficult to judge vs other gear.  

So AGD is a brand I had been flirting with and finally a customer asked for a demo so I put in my order and a few days later the Tempo arrived.  I dropped in into my system and all I can say is WOW.  It has all the grunt required to drive my Vivids.  Is warm and sweet with an extremely wide sound stage. 

Even fresh out of the flight case, (no box here) it didn't sound digital at all.  This sounds closer to Class A to me than Class D.  I have not heard a different GaN at this point but I am fascinated by this and how good it sounds compared to other Class Ds and even Class ABs.  

The other surprising part is this unit is about 1/3 the size of a normal component. I know I am a hair late to the game with GaN but damn, is it ever too late to celebrate a product.   

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benzman
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I had a couple of Tempos ( bridged) for a couple of weeks in my system. Definitely sound good but a little soft in my system. Didn’t seem to have the grunt of my Odyssey monoblocks. 
these would be awesome amps mated with a high efficiency speaker or taking care of the mid-hi in a bi-amped system. 
if purchasing stay away from OCD Mike Powell. Alberto yanked his dealer status and it took him 10 weeks to get me back 9k on the amps as he said he spent my money. He is a real POS.  

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atmasphere
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Technics and Lyndorf to name a few are digital. Even the manufacturer states this.

Erroneously so, yes. What I've seen on the Technics site looks like it was written by the marketing department.

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jjss49
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knowing ralph and his excellent reputation for quality of product and sound, i would agree that ralph’s new gan amp should be considered and compared against alberto’s tempo/audions

alberto does provide an in home trial period, he is based out of los angeles, ships fast, very responsive

am sure ralph will chime in with his policy in this regard, once he is ramped up and shipping his gan amps

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I will loan my amp out for demo.  Depending on relationship with me will dictate terms.  If I don’t know you, I will require a deposit or at least a CC for my security.  You pay return shipping if you don’t buy one.  If you do, all shipping costs are credited. 

ricevs
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Another amp in this price range to consider is the Kinki EX-B7.  These 250 watt mono blocks are used by Srajen at 6 moons as his reference.....and he has heard the AGD Gran Vivace amps.  These amps are $3500 a pair and are made super well.  2.5 meg bandwidth.....all the input and output stages mounted on one board with input and output jacks directly soldered to that board.....very tweak.  Check this out:

https://www.kinki-studio.com/ex-b7

 

 

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