FS:Ortofon ST-80SE Step Up Transformer

[Ammonite Audio]

Here is my Ortofon ST-80SE SUT. It's 6 months old, boxed in original packaging, and in perfect working order having just been back to Henley Designs to have one RCA socket tightened. Gain is 27dB, but see http://www.ortofon.com/products/transformers/st-80-se-mc-transformer for full specs. It will suit most MC cartridges.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s301/hugocass/IMGP1190_zps57ebbf78.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s301/hugocass/IMGP1191_zpsf05fc91b.jpg

These are £1100 new. Yours for the bargain price of £700 including insured delivery within the UK. I am happy to post overseas at extra cost.

[MikeMusic]

Here is my Ortofon ST-80SE SUT. It's 6 months old, boxed in original packaging, and in perfect working order having just been back to Henley Designs to have one RCA socket tightened. Gain is 27dB, but see http://www.ortofon.com/products/transformers/st-80-se-mc-transformer for full specs. It will suit most MC cartridges.
These are £1100 new. Yours for the bargain price of £700 including insured delivery within the UK. I am happy to post overseas at extra cost.
Bargain
Mine works a treat !

[Wakefield Turntables]

Hugo,

If you don't mind asking, why are you selling?

[Ammonite Audio]

Hugo,

If you don't mind asking, why are you selling?

It just doesn't work for me. Marco and others are overjoyed with theirs, so it must be a system synergy thing.

Price is flexible - any offers out there?

[MikeMusic]

It just doesn't work for me. Marco and others are overjoyed with theirs, so it must be a system synergy thing.

Price is flexible - any offers out there?

It has worked perfectly for me on 3 cartridges in 2 decks
Perhaps you need to feed it into a Naim 82 ?
:)

[Marco]

It just doesn't work for me.


Yet it did, when you first got it... I remember how pleased you said you were. Have you changed your system in any way since then?


Marco and others are overjoyed with theirs, so it must be a system synergy thing.


Of course it is, as is EVERYTHING in audio. I hope you find something better that works for you. I presume some Hashimotos are now Hugo bound? ;)

Anyway, the review quote of the ST-80SE, in HiFi4all.dk (shown on your link to the Ortofon website), for me, says it all:


ST-80 SE provides the optimum signal transmission and integrity...It doesn’t have any sound - it is neutral. It simply lets more information to be transmitted...


That's exactly how I feel: the ST-80SE simply allows the sonic characteristics and musical abilities of my SPU to shine through, unhindered, with no detectable 'signature' of its own. I just wish that the rest of that review wasn't written in Danish....!!

Anyway, mate, good luck with the sale. Anyone with an SPU, in particular (and ideally also a quality valve MM phono stage), who seeks a more 'truthful' sound from it than vintage SUTs provide, should snap up this beauty!! :exactly:

Marco.

[Gromit]

Which this was half the price - somehow I don't quite think Hugo's going to let it go for that though. :(

<weighing up trying an SUT into my amp's MM stage but don't want to hijack Hugo's FS thread here>

[MikeMusic]

Which this was half the price - somehow I don't quite think Hugo's going to let it go for that though. :(

<weighing up trying an SUT into my amp's MM stage but don't want to hijack Hugo's FS thread here>
This very box was a big step up for me

[Ammonite Audio]

Now SOLD

[Marco]

Cool! Out of curiosity, who to? :)

Marco.

[Ammonite Audio]

A buyer off the 'Wam

[Marco]

Cool - nice one, mate :)

Marco.