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The amp's relay circuit carefully switches on all components not only at power on but also when switching inputs. A series of small clicks confirms this. While connected to our 107dB sensitive Avantgarde Duo Omega hornspeakers, the amplifier proved to not be completely quiet. With these extremely sensitive speakers, some residual hiss remained. Ad van Medevoort confirmed that to be a consequence of his circuit design but candidly, why hook a 110 wpc amp to speakers that will blow you away with single-digit output watts?

Connected to other resident speakers, the hiss was completely absent. To get in the mood, we kicked off our brief sampling with a Van Medevoort recording of the Amsterdam Symphony. One of the cuts was of a concert in a hall we know quite well. We played this not yet commercially available recording a few times over our reference system and then with the product of the man who made the recording and the player and amplifier. From the first notes it was clear what Audioart aims at, namely a rich and well-balanced sound with sufficient localization information. While particularly the low frequencies received a little extra attention in our system combination, that was not the case with the mids and highs to never get shouty or out of control. We then tracked the Al Andaluz Project Deus et Diabolus with members of the Spanish L'ham de Foc and German Estampie formations whose three female singers integrate medieval with Mediterranean and Oriental music. Their eerie voices and the full load of period and oriental string instruments was handled very well and never devolved into sounding sharp or nasty.


The subsequently played cooperation between Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt on Slide from Freedom features various guitars. The mohan veena is laid over the pulse of the table while a cold steel sound emanating from a resonator guitar spices up the melody like a drop of lime juice on an oyster. The tight jazz of the Avishai Cohen Trio's Gently Disturbed begged for some extra volume and the attenuator was remotely turned to the level where 'thinking in sound' took over. The amplifier wasn't fazed in the least and remained cool as advertised. We own just a handful of SACDs but those spun for pure enjoyment played back just fine.
We briefly considered combining the CDP with other amplifiers or the vM amplifier with other sources but decided not to as the point here was that these van Meedevort components were designed as a set and should be sampled as such. The CD350 and MA350 combination in our
opinion is a sound investment and for the asking price, one obtains not merely a hifi but musical combo that should also last for years and years. Our visit to the Maarssen plant of van Meedevort was a very pleasant surprise of Dutch entrepreneurship in this age of off-shore outsourcing. Additionally, our initial impressions of their electronics are promising to encourage readers with vM dealers to arrange for an audition.
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Quality of packing: Well packed in a sturdy cardboard box.
Reusability of packing: Reusable several times.
Quality of owner's manual: Simple but adequate.
Condition of component received: Flawless.
Website comments: Contains useful info.
Warranty: Two years parts & labor.
Human interactions: Professional, helpful and very friendly.
Pricing: Very reasonable
Van Medevoort website