Belles 350A


I just bought a Belles 350A amp. Let me tell all of you, this is one fantastic amp. It is much better than the VTL tubes that it replaced. There is not much written about this amp. I was wondering if any of the audiogoners use this amp ? If so what power cords do you use and has any body had good success with any tweaks ? I put mine on a nice piece of maple and it sounds beautiful.
mikeyaya
As good as the 350 is, the new 150 Reference is even better if you don't need 250wpc.
I tried a 350A with my Proac 3.8's for a while. Of the amps I've used with these speakers, Classe CA200, Audio Research 100.2, Rouge M150, The Belles was the one I liked the least. It had a very forward presentation in my system.
Mikeyaya, David Belles will tell you of a simple tweak if your unit is more than a year old....makes a big difference....I have a 150A Reference and it doubles as a stereo or monobloc amp. It will be superior when I mate it with another! Welcome aboard! His 21A preamp, with a few simple tweaks, is also a winner :-)
It envolves removing 4 capacitors in the amp that allow it to become much more transparent. I don't remember the c- numbers but the are fairly large sausage looking caps near the input end each of the circuit boards(2 caps to the board) You simply cut them out. You can call Belles and he will tell you if your amps serial number envolves this tweak. It works pretty good. Amps coming from Belles over the last year will already be done.