I'd like to have a look around this guys house!
Audio Note Ongaku Kondo
Gulp!This is the second one I have owned...
Location: London
Posts: 2,410
I'm Nat-andthat'swhyIdrink.
I'd like to have a look around this guys house!
Audio Note Ongaku Kondo
Gulp!This is the second one I have owned...
Mad. Think of the entire system you could build for £65k.
Obscenely over-priced hi-fi wankery for clueless cock-jockeys!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Location: Torquay, Devon.
Posts: 5,683
I'm Shane.
Some lucky bastard got a bargain.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_638wt_1185
you'd want a demo first before committing yourself
Not far from either of us Martin, why dont we contact the seller and pop over for a listen - it is after all the 'best amp ever'. Fancy having the pressure of justifying that tag? why doesn't he just start it at 99p and see what happens.
Paul.
LOL - I can't believe he's going to get a bid on that starting price anyway, Paul.
Gary.
Technics SE-9600-Technics SU-9600--Technics Technics RS-9900-ST-9600-Technics SH-9010 EQ-Hitachi HCA7500 pre Technics 1210mk2,SL P1200 cdp.Moth mkII RCM, Revox B77mKii,Pioneer CT-F1250-Nakamichi MR-1.Technics A900 mkll,Technics 631 cassette deck,Yamaha cr-1000 & Cr-600,Celestion Ditton 44's & 15xr's,Thorens TD-150mkll,Tascam 34,Akia 4000DS,Leak 2000 and assortment of Technics cd and minidisc players and Mission/AR/Kef speakers
I've heard some of the top AN amps, Ali. I would categorise them as low powered specialist amps with great spacious sound but lacking in welly. They need sympathetic partnering speakers, with which they can be superb but not to my taste.
I would value them at 1/10 of that price, which I think is fair. Any more than that and you are paying for the brand.