About VAC
"For those with a raging fire burning in their pocket, VAC’s Phi Beta Beam Power Integrated Amplifier ($19,000) will tickle their ears and help keep that hole from burning any larger really fast. Yes, it’s expensive, but I’ve heard precious few amplifiers that sound this good. I’m a sucker for the manner in which tubes replicate music, and this amp has all those luxuriant qualities, yet it doesn’t really have a discernable sound of its own—it simply churns out, with great prowess, some of the sweetest music imaginable outside a live performance, full of life, nuance and vitality. It’s 110 watts of top-shelf intoxication." - JazzTimes on the VAC Phi Beta
"The sound was easily the Best at Show in my humble opinion." - StereoTimes on the VAC room, CES/THE Show 2004
Stereophile reviews the Signature Preamplifier in the October 2002 issue, rated Recommended Component... an "audio epiphany", "the best preamplifier I've auditioned."
- Who had the best sound at Home Entertainment 2001? Read what HiFiPlus has to say!
- reviews the VAC Avatar! Click here! "...in a rhythmic sense, the Avatar is single-handedly the most incredible unit I have on hand, regardless of price...The balance of the overall frequency spectrum and harmonic structuring thereof, combined with excellent boogie factor, makes the Avatar a truly extraordinary piece indeed! So just maybe all you need is love... and a VAC Avatar." (Copyright 2000 by Enjoy the Music.com™ All rights reserved.)
- Avatar, Stereophile, April 2000, page 63; follow-up, November, 2000
- Avatar Super, IAR Newsletter
- Avatar Super, The Absoulte Sound, May 2004 - NEW MAY 2004
- CPA1 Mk II, The Absolute Sound, Issue 106 [visit the TAS website]
- CPA1 Mk II - Audio, May 1996
- CPA1 Mk II, Fi, March 1996
- PA35/35, The Audio Adventure, February 1996
- PA80/80, Stereophile, March 1996
- PA80/80, High Fi News & Record Review (UK), September 1995
- PA90 review (cover feature), Stereophile,
Nov. 1991
- PA90 review (cover feature), Positive Feedback, May 1992
- PA100/100,
Stereo Review's Sound & Vision magazine, October, 2000. A rock
band and its producer compare the VAC PA100/100 & Standard
Preamplifier to a Krell/Lexicon combo costing
twice as much. The verdict? "There's a lot more clarity on
the tube system, with a lot more going on in stereo separation...
the tube is what I want our records to sound like... the tube
had more 'definition'... with the tube, I can hear into the
mix better... That sound is so clear and open, especially
in the real bottom and the ambient high end... "
- PA160 Review, Audio, August 1995
- Phi 70, IAR Newsletter, Issue 80
- Renaissance 30/30 Mk III, Maxim Magazine, May 1999
- Renaissance Thirty/Thirty Mk III, Fi, October 1998
- Renaissance Thirty/Thirty Mk II, Ultimate Audio, Jan/Feb 1998
- Renaissance 30/30, Fi, March 1996
- Renaissance 30/30 Mk III, The Absolute Sound, Issue 117
- Renaissance 30/30 Mk III, Stereophile, June 1999.
- Renaissance 30/30 ("Premier Design"), Home Theater Technology, May 1995
- Renaissance 70/70, Audio, May 1996
- Renaissance 70/70, The Absolute Sound, Issue 106
- Renaissance 70/70 Mk II, The Absolute Sound, Issue 96
- Renaissance 70/70 Mk II, "Recommended Systems," The Absolute Sound, Issue 100
- Renaissance 70/70, Stereophile, Dec. 1994; Manufacturer's Comment, July 1995
- Renaissance 140 Mk II, The Absolute Sound, Issue 98
- Renaissance 140 Mk II, "Recommended Systems," The Absolute Sound, Issue 100
- Renaissance 140 Mk II, "The Best Components," The Absolute Sound, Issue 100
- Renaissance Signature Preamplifier Mk II, full review, Stereophile, October 2002
- Renaissance Signature Preamplifier Mk II, Recommended Component, October 2002
- Signature Preamplifier - see Renaissance Signature Preamplifier
- Standard Preamplifier, Stereo Review's Sound & Vision magazine, October, 2000. A rock band and its producer compare the VAC PA100/100 & Standard Preamplifier to a Krell/Lexicon combo costing twice as much. The verdict? "There's a lot more clarity on the tube system, with a lot more going on in stereo separation... the tube is what I want our records to sound like... the tube had more 'definition'... with the tube, I can hear into the mix better... That sound is so clear and open, especially in the real bottom and the ambient high end... "
