Lavardin Model IT 15 - Vivid G2 - 14x18x9' room

[elescher]

Looking for some thoughts on this combo. Anyone hear this amp? It's rated at only 50-55/ch but what it lacks in power it makes up for with music. I heard this integrated amp a while back and was very impressed. I want this to work but am I being realistic?

TIA

 

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Looking for some thoughts on this combo. Anyone hear this amp? It's rated at only 50-55/ch but what it lacks in power it makes up for with music. I heard this integrated amp a while back and was very impressed. I want this to work but am I being realistic?

TIA

I do not have experience with the Vivid G2 but I share your enthusiasm with Lavardin electronics. I have owned the Lavardin preamplifier and stereo amplifier and the combo sounded very musical - the less grainy solid state I have heard, on par with DartZeel. However at that time I moved to Sonus Faber Stradivari and as they needed a lot of power, the Lavardin's did not stay for long.

Lavardin designs are optimized to have very low thermal distortion (memory distortion as they called it). The basic concepts of the theory and the design behind Lavardin products were due to Gérard Perrot, who wrote long articles on it using the pseudo Héphaïstos.

 

[elescher]

Thanks for sharing, quite helpful in fact. I have experience with the Strads and they are a much easier load then the G2's. Which speaker did you have prior to the Strads that you matched with the Lavardin? We're the amps the same power rating @ 55 pch? Sorry for all the questions.