What Do Amp Guys Think About Bele Canto Evo2's?


I must admit I've never owned a stand alone amp... ouch that hurt, please don't flog me! ;-) However, I've changed gears and will be in the market for both a pre-amp and amp. Because my system has to do double duty as both a two channel music listening station and a home theatre I'm pretty much a solid state kind of guy, although I do appreciate the warm liquid quality of tubes.

In any event, any thoughts on the Bele Canto amps... the professional reviews have been stellar, particularly for their price (around $2,300).

Thanks,
DB
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Showing 1 response by nealhood

I will agree with the other posts here. I owned an evo 200.2 running on Maggies and it performed very well. Very clean, balanced and detailed. There were times when I thought the amplifier almost too clean and/or neutral but, isn't this what the amp is suppose to do?

On electrostatic speakers I was less enamoured in that the evo sounded very lean and brittle, though still squeaky clean and absolutely no grit. Just a lack of fullness to the sound. But this was not a problem on my Maggies.

As you are aware, the evo2 is suppose to be a improvement on the evo 200.2.

My advice, go for it. And, think about the BC preamp that goes with it (pre-1 or whatever the model is).