Vincent Amps

Have the "little" Vincent integrated and had used them with 1C's. Very dynamic, punchy bass, not the last word in detail, but smooth sounding. I like it very much. Also used it with a vintage pair of DCM QED 1a's. That was a magical combination for some reason. It replaced an NAD integrated. Much better sounding overall and well built. IMHO I think it's a good value.

I heard the Vincent preamp and Power amp at a local audio store. The day he received it it was bright sounding. A week later I heard it on a pair of Usher speakers and I have to admit it caught my ear. I found it to be very interesting and it wasn't bright anymore. I heard an Audioquest recording Crecent Crawl Bruce Katz and it was sounding real nice. The speakers were either Usher CP6311 or CP 6371's. Bass was tight and highs were clean and natural. The midrange was actually very good and natural.
I'm going back for listen again in about a week to see if it got any better.

I have the Sheng Ya (Vincent) 300 WPC monoblocks ( first 100 W in class A). They sound fabulous on my Audio Physic Avanti Century speakers. I use Translucent (gold/silver) speaker cables and have a Paul Speltz naked autoformer connected to them.

I paid $1500 bucks on Audiogon for them and can say that I think I got the bargain of the century. They are very smooth, liquid, detailed without being etched and image quite nicely.

Jaymark,
How do you like the trasnslucent speaker cables. I am using their interconnect and they are great. How do they compare sonicaly to the other speakers cables you used. These interconnects are definetly sleepers.
Thanks