I bought an Edge A after reading several glowing reviews, not least here. I've had three days to play with it. I like it. I'll give a couple weeks to settle in before I get super critical, but it is already sounding better than when I auditioned it at Richer Sounds.
The listening room was small, crowded and sanitised for my protection. I pretty much knew I was going to buy it before I listened to it. I added a DP-UB9000EBK, signed up for 18 months@0% and cooled my heels until it arrived a week later.
The delivery guy said, "Be careful, it's heavy." No sh!t. Whoever designed the packaging must be an Apple fanboy. Very nice presentation. There were a pair of very clever cardboard sleeves over the heat sinks so you could lift it into place without cutting yourself to ribbons.
It immediately sounded better than I remembered, I thing because it likes the KEF105.3's. Wide soundstage, very good separation. It started to warm up pretty quick, which is my main concern for reliability.
I love my Sugden A21. I bought a second-hand A21 years ago and had to take it to Yorkshire twice before I gave up and tried other amps. I had a Musical Fidelity, a Roksan Caspian M2 (which ended up in the shop with a dodgy selector switch) and a Primare i22.
The Primare was nice, I really liked having the digital inputs, but it just had no weight to the sound. No soul. I relented and bought a brand new Sugden A21. What a joyful noise it makes! And for 2.5 years, I was happy. Then the left channel went.
The reviews for the Edge A caught my attention, as did the price! However, lockdown and the Dominic Cummings effect made me think – I can do whatever I want to do. I can afford it! And I've saved so much money over the past 100 days...
Anyway, Cambridge Audio say I can listen to it for 100 days and, if I don't like it for any reason, send it back. The worst part of that deal was trying to find some place to store the packaging!
I'll keep you posted.
(This is my first post after lurking for awhile. Forgive me if I've broken any etiquette rules!)