Aura PA200 Power Amp

I can buy one of these amps which were made by/for B&W as new and in a sealed carton, but how good were they? Grateful some advice please.

 

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I've had two of these and they have been nothing but trouble! Very unreliable. First one had a channel fault, the second one was fine but when I sold it it arrived faulty!

I would advise anyone to avoid these amps.

 

I'm here!

I have one of these. I like it, and it doesn't disgrace itself when used with my Accuphase "reference" preamp. It has a sweet, powerful sound and is slightly "dark". Certainly not an amp of the flat earth, but not a flat-footed MF either.
The problem, as Soundzandpower has noted, is that they are totally unreliable. Mine has blown both L & R channel power module within the lst year - in fact every amp I've heard about has done this at some point:yikes: Bizarrely enough, it's dead easy to get them repaired... in Japan where they were a cult amplifier. You will not find it so easy to get one repaired in the UK.
If the one you are looking at is new, it is quite likely to be part of a batch that was originally intended for export to the US and has had its transformer retapped for UK use. If it is one of these (big if), it will almost certainly blow it's power module after a while.
As I said, I like mine, but it will be replaced soon enough with something a lot more reliable
Caveat emptor etc

HTH

 

I believe the guy who is selling them does actually repair them too, he is in leeds.