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NINE GRAND??????? Fuggin 'ell :(
Twenty one years ago, 509's were less than £2500 retail and I perhaps foolishly bought a pair of Tube Technology Genesis mono's instead, which sold for about the same.
Several years ago, stuff on ebay was dirt cheap. It's only in recent years that audio has taken off in price (unlike the clocks I bought which now sell for half what I paid for them).
When I first started selling 509's they were around £1100 the pair and made the USA competitors look like very poor value indeed, now they are similarly priced. This is partly due to the £2K price rise just before Christmas...:stalks:
Having said that they are still wonderful amps, solid and reliable.
As for 'vintage' products - I used to moan that all the wonderful old kit I have was worth virtually nothing but now it's all gone stratospheric and I'm still not happy because I find it too expensive to buy goodies on E-Bay...:scratch:
Thats a good machine. I borrowed one of these for a few weeks i the 80's to try before buy, if it wernt for a Tandberg coming up cheap at the time i would have bought it back then..The long throw VU's were to die for. The thing that gets me with the big Naks later on the digital meters are pants.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NAKAMICHI-482-...item2eabc848d6
They're still a bargain compared to some of the so-called 'high-end' shite sold nowadays for a hell of a lot more, where you're paying for the prestige value of a 'desirable' badge and not much else....Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian Walker
I loved your 509s (the first ones you had). These work because they use high quality hand-wound transformers (made by Tim himself) and use a simple well-thought out circuit with very good, although not stupidly exotic components - always a successful recipe for valve amps :)
It's just a pity he's rather sold his soul to the devil these days and instead of 'proper' no-nonsense designs like the 509s, he seems happy churning out audio jewellery to pacify the badge snobs who'll buy anything with a flashy chrome faceplate fitted with his name emblazoned on the front :rolleyes:
Marco.
Don't know if to mention this here or in the jokes & funnies section!
I just asked a guy on E-Bay to take a photo of a front pannel for me .His reply was sorry i'm in too ill health to do that at the moment! So i said are you gonna be in too much an ill heath to post it out then :lol:
One every day.Can't catch my breath sometimes.
Maybe his man-servant does all his posting for him? Including all the other 'extras'.... :eyebrows:
Marco.
I think Andre's gone, Marco.........
Did I make him go? He sounded pretty pissed off in the dynavector thread :(
No, I think he said he'd decided he was for the off a while back now.
How come? He did sound pretty miffed at my comments but did say "just before I pop of for good, but that's another story" - I was a bit confused, I hope I wasn't the final straw...