NuForce vs Red Wine

03-08-08: Drubin
MrT--no objections at all, really, and I think you should try it. My reservations are about the Nuforce amps themselves. Powering my Harbeth Monitor 30's, the combination sounds terrific. But with my Dynaudio Confidence C1's, not good at all.

Interesting that your experience with the NuForce/Dynaudio combo is not good at all. My Sonata III use Dynaudio drivers and I thought the combo was very good, but lacking some punch and drive in the mids and bass as compared with my SS amplification.

Maybe you can borrow an active pre from a buddy?

I will try an active pre.

One of the things I did not care for about the Red Wine 30.2 was the batteries ,In my case they did not last nearly as long as they were said to last on the website,always seemed like I would get cut off in the middle of a listening session,and have to wait for the batteries to charge back up.As the batteries aged you get much less time per charge!And the batteries are not cheap,if you send the unit to Vinnie ,he will charge you labor,batteries,shipping,so you are better off changing them yourself .The quality of batteries varies greatly depending where you buy.The batteries were a PITA,took a lot of enjoyment away,from owning this amp ,,,,they are very nice sounding amps,,but 30 watts is 30 watts,,was not enough power for my system .Resale value not very good.Would work better In the right system,that does not require long listening sessions ,IMHO