Any Experience with Audio Valve?


Has anyone owned, heard, or repaired Audio Valve equipment? The Challenger 160s look particularly interesting, but I can't find too much information about them. Anything to help?
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Showing 1 response by chams_uk

I have only heard great things as well.

But as Trelja says, there have been reports of reliability issues. I have heard OF this for their amps, but mainly for their Headphone amp, one of which I own.

Due more to shipping, but exacerbated by perhaps lesser design, there were transoformer/PC board problems. With the company in Germany, it would tough to rectify were it not for a great dealer who sold the headphone amp.

Subsequent redesign of the amp inards resulted in different placement of the transformer to alleviate the problem.

So take my commets with SOME salt grains, they ARE hearsay. My headphone amp does have the change in it, so it is fine. And as for the sound, no complaints at all ! Beautiful, clear, detailed, dynamic, open, etc etc etc.

And it LOOKS pretty neat, too :-)

Todd - chams_uk