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REVIEW: Proceed HPA2 Amplifier (SS) Review by LRoss at Audio Asylum

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This amp has so many good qualities that i dont know how to describe them all. i guess my adjectives would be... Authoritative, Musical, Slighly Laid back, and Imaging, Imaging, Imaging! Every Insturment is well defined and has a percise possition on the sound stage. I own the proceed amp-3 and when i first got the hpa-2 i discovered that it was not as soft and laid back as the amp-3. It is mellowing with time but i dont think it will ever sound like the amp-2/3 line. Proceed has managed to increase treble extension and detail without the harshness that causes those headaches. Now for the bad news. The amps protection circuits are over sensitive to the extreem. In my house the amp didnt want to power up to standby mode at the neighbors house it worked fine. I had an electrician, electric company and anyone else i could find come out to the house and examine my home wiring,circuits and power to no avail. I finally found that by turning the amp on and off several times in sucession i could get the amp to standby mode and once there it works fine. I have had the amp for over 8 months and had no problems with it unless the power goes out then i have to go thru the process of getting it back into standby mode. I understand the need for protection circuits but i think proceed also needs to take into account that power varies from place to place and back off of their tolerances a little. In the long run its a minor inconvenience because once you get this amp turned on you will never want to turn it off again.
If you have 3k to drop on a 2ch amp i highly recommend that you audition the Proceed HPA-2
Lee Ross


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Topic - REVIEW: Proceed HPA2 Amplifier (SS) Review by LRoss at Audio Asylum - LRoss 15:04:33 03/14/01 ( 0)