Bargains on ebay?

[southall-1998]

This is a cracking bargain for someone needing a cheap but good amp: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1210884651...84.m1423.l2649

Torus toroidal transformer, Mosfet output transistors, class a preamp, all capacitors are Elna "for audio" .... It has an awful lot in common with the TA-FA3ES [just missing the seperate front end psu & heavy duty casework ]

I'm guessing you owned the Sony TA-F248E in the past?

[istari_knight]

I'm guessing you owned the Sony TA-F248E in the past?

Nope never owned one but I have owned the TA-FA3ES with which it shares 80% of its internals

[southall-1998]

Nope never owned one but I have owned the TA-FA3ES with which it shares 80% of its internals

Interesting, what speakers were you using at the time?

[istari_knight]

Interesting, what speakers were you using at the time?

Royd Minstrels, Mordaunt-Short MS25i & some Sony APM-22ESmk2 at one point.

The Royds worked best but those square Sony drivers really pack a punch in the bass department! FWIW the matching CD players supposed to be good too http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SONY-XE-90...item1c31774849

[Beobloke]

Blimey. Never seen anything like this!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BEOMASTER-...item19daa5c580

One of the absolute stars of vintage B&O amplification. If I were nearer Leicester I'd be on this like a tramp on a bag of chips!

[The Grand Wazoo]

Here's an exemplary advert for an amplifier.
Note the owner is an audiophile and he should probably be a hi-fi journalist:

"Anyone knows about these amps will no the quality of sound they produce , no treble no base just pure sound".

[The Grand Wazoo]

Oops, no offence intended Adam!

[DSJR]

I agree re the Beomaster 4400, a very smooth sound with good sense of depth reproduction and i bet it'll finish up quite high value. the 4000 which preceeded it was also good, but "flatter" in reproduction of perspectives. I think the 6000 and 8000 receivers were good as well, but these were the last of the "proper" HiFi units they did for a very long time, as style over substance took over for fifteen to twenty years or so - IMO of course.

ALL B&O amps, whatever you think of them, were designed to work with 4 ohm loads, so were stable and reliable, only usually failing when caps got old, or sliding/touch controls broke..

[istari_knight]

Hows about this then ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-19...item4172164c34

Nice bit of rack rash!

[prestonchipfryer]

Hope springs eternal:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Groove-Kle...#ht_480wt_1255