Stupendously Expensive Amplifier

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It's probably out of stock.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Yeah, sold out. :)

I think the decimal point is in the wrong place. "Suggested U.S. retail for the MKII Factory Update is $7495 per pair. New vacuum tubes and shipping to / from factory are extra. For those music lovers who require the ultimate in power delivery, new-build REFERENCE 600 MKII amplifiers are available at U.S. $17,495 each, or $34,990 the pair, suggested retail."

So MSRP is $34,990. I think he meant to price them at $19,999.99, not $200K.

Still pretty silly though...

Somebody's hoping that you won't notice the location of the decimal point?

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Solid gold, black anodized faceplate?

A real audio purist will go for a amp.

Theres a few on ebay $3k to $14k.

I knew a guy that cleaned out the internal dust from his gear once a year, and even he thought these prices were high.

Cheers

Can't forget the capacitor upgrade, though!

By the same guy. Hmmm...

LOL!! Years ago there was this special, expensive brick that you could place on your amp that would increase its bass performance or so they said.

Screw coupling caps (try to get rid of them). How about the phools that say they can hear the difference in supply filter caps. ...or the frapin' color of the wrapping! (yes, really)

See down the bottom of this:

"our engineer has hurt his back ?so we cannot service these ourselves for the foreseeable future"

I LOL'd.

Clifford Heath.

Ever since Bob Carver designed a joke amplifier which sold like hotcakes, e veryone's been trying to top him. His was the Silver Seven, including all the known audiophile beliefs in one place: tube amp, silver wiring, transfo rmer iron from special Peruvian mines, a granite slab to prevent microphoni cs, DC filament supply, etc. etc... A mono amp of course (so, must buy t wo!)

I hope he knew enough to use non-resin standoffs, ceramic-based paint, and to color the special spots with the special green hi-lighter pen.

Well that would all have been for naught, unless he supplied it with a "Isoclean Audiophile Gold-Plated UK

13A Mains Plug": "The Reference 13A plug for your mains cable We use these 13A mains plug in our demonstration room because they perform so well. The design of the terminals mean that they are less likely to lose their grip over time, so they continue to keep your equipment connected securely to the mains. Pre fitted with the Clipsal 13A Audiophile fuse for improved performance."

What they do not say, the real enthusiast has to buy a companion cable with transparent insulation and gold-plated Litz conductors at a considerably better price ...

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(I particularly like "three silver plated copper conductors made from *Ohno* Continuous Cast (OCC) copper", my emphasis)

Or any of their wide range of antiresonant fuses ranging

Truly these people are "special".

Well, one *can* take this fetish for proper power a step or two beyond the fuses and power cord...

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I can ALMOST accept that some of them hear the difference in coupling caps. But usually power supply filter caps are a different story. One notable ex ception is on Pioneer phono preamps. They use like a 220/10 in the phono st age and it looks like that can really affect the performance. They use them a few other places as well which might affect the overall performance. One is in the global feedback network of the power amp. That affects everythin g.

Looking at the circuit, they did not need even half of that capacitance, th ey used it for the low ESR. There is no other reason to do it. Get the prin t for a Pioneer SX-737 and you should be able to see what I mean. They coul d have used a 33 uF but used a 220 instead.

Now, when most amps were not usually DC coupled the output caps were a crit ical factor. If they only used a 1,000 uF you lost alot of bass.

But interstage, not so much.

Correct. for Liberals we now have Libertines and for conservatives... well, no one. Just a big, empty void in the political spectrum.

Amazingly good value! You can't seriously expect to connect a 100 grand amp up with an ordinary mains plug! The very notion is laughable. A system like this is only as good as its weakest link, so *everything* right through must be of the very best 'high end' design. ;->