For Sale ...Pioneer A400

[zanash]

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superb boxed condition and seemingly little used

...doesn't sound half bad either

punches well above its weight ..as witrh my previous submissions ..this is part of a hifi collection that a friends uncle had. It now needs to be sold as the owner has died.

offers round the £65 mark

I can throw in a free qed ic cable if that help sweeten the deal !

[synsei]

I would buy this for my second system if funds weren't quite so short just now. The A-400 is a fantastic sounding budget amp (it has generated a bit of a fan club over the years) and I urge anyone who's dithering to take the plunge, you will not be disappointed. ;)

[Fatsiuyau]

Hi, interested in the amp. Does it come with original remote control and instruction manual? Any marks/scratches/dents on amp? Full working order? Cheers, John

[Marco]

Yep, someone snap Pete's arm off here quickly....! The A400 is a superb little amp - Pioneer hit upon a 'magic' recipe with this one, sonically, and is a TOTAL BARGAIN at £65.

I sold literally hundreds of them when I used to work for Bill Hutchinson in Glasgow in the early 90s. If you want a 'giant-killer' vintage(ish) SS amp, this is about as good as it gets, folks!! :)

Marco.

[Fatsiuyau]

You have pm.

[zanash]

thanks for the interest .......

this unit is provisional sold

[Jac Hawk]

I've got one and the fettling you can do to them is well worth it, replacing the smoothing caps takes it to another level, as well as fitting a Schottky bridge rectifier, the only thing that lets it down is it's phono stage but when these babies were selling by the bucket load the masses wanted CD, and as Marco said a bargain for £65 considering you see them go on ebay for a lot more, if i didn't already have one, i would have snapped your hands off

[Marco]

I'd imagine that a judiciously tweaked A-400 would easily sound as good as any £1500 amp today, so someone's got a nice buy!

Marco.

[Jac Hawk]

I'd imagine that a judiciously tweaked A-400 would easily sound as good as any £1500 amp today, so someone's got a nice buy!

Marco.

trust me mate they do very easily, i'm still not done with mine, i've done the caps from the power side and thrown in the Schottky rectifier all told it cost about £250 or so in parts, then i tweaked the bias slightly, next thing to do is replace the power cord for something a bit better and the RCA connectors for new gold plated ones, TBH the sky's the limit with this amp, the more you do the better it gets ;)

[Marco]

Indeed, mate. It's because most of what was in there was right to start with! ;)

Marco.

[webby]

PM sent

[webby]

I'm thinking about what I'd do if my Audiolab 8000S bit the dirt. This would prove to be an adequate replacement no?

[Dandy]

Sent you PM and mail, sorry for delay

[Jac Hawk]

I'm thinking about what I'd do if my Audiolab 8000S bit the dirt. This would prove to be an adequate replacement no?

IMHO a fettled A400 sounds much better ;)

[zanash]

yes had an 8000 pre power ...for all of about 20 mins .....not my cup of tea ...hard forward sound ..grabing you by the throat..no thanks !

but supose its also down to the speakers too ...sold the power on to a chap with some bw600 somethings ..sounded dire ..but he liked it !

[pzblues]

thanks for the interest .......

this unit is provisional sold


Hi
Is this amplifier sold yet?

pz

[WOStantonCS100]

I'm doing a cap job on an A-339 right now. It looks very similar and does sound very good. Nice size heavy transformer and big honeycomb heat sink for the transistors. I keep this and an SA-7500 in tow in case my valves go down. I'd expect the A-400 to be equally well spec'd.