I bought this a few months ago from someone in London. It was working perfectly when I bought it but after transporting it home it developed a slight hum in the left channel. After speaking to a few people, I tried to move the valves around to see if that would cure the hum but unfortunately, it didn't and now there is a hum in both channels. It's not audible when playing at decent volume levels but that's obviously a subjective evaluation so would recommend taking it to Mark at Ming Da UK in Malvern for a once over/service.
I'm selling because I'm now more interested in building my own amplifiers and I need to raise money for projects and this won't get the use it deserves.
Here is the blurb from the original owner:
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All new valves. Renown for their excellent high spec transformers, that really make any amplifier.
The original KT88's have been replaced/upgraded with a new set of KT120's Tung-Sol's, Chinese valves replaced with 4 new x JAN Philips 12AU7's and a Mullard ECC83.
The valves here alone cost over £300!
All old caps and electrolytics have beed removed, and replaced with high spec AuDyn Reference Caps and a bucking Transformer to deal with UK 240V. This is a genuine UK version, not direct from China. It has been verified and updated by Ming Da UK, with their stamp and Bias settings.
This amplifier is at it's peak; Powerful, able to be switched from Ultralinear mode to Triode mode, able to drive almost any speakers with those KT120's: Better than the KT88's with more headroom and power. Well worth an audition.
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I don't have a car so it wouldn't be straightforward for me to take this to Mark but it might be easy for others. Given that I don't know the cost of service and Mark couldn't say without looking at it, I'm not quite sure how to price it. I bought it for £750 and had to pay around £40-50 to get it home in a cab.
I think £650 seems like a reasonable starting point but if others think that's too much and I need to adjust the price, I will.
Probably an easy fix for someone on here.
Will have to be collected only from Bristol due to the weight. If someone wants it and is happy to collect it, then Malvern is about an hour's drive from Bristol.
I'm selling because I'm now more interested in building my own amplifiers and I need to raise money for projects and this won't get the use it deserves.
Here is the blurb from the original owner:
"""
All new valves. Renown for their excellent high spec transformers, that really make any amplifier.
The original KT88's have been replaced/upgraded with a new set of KT120's Tung-Sol's, Chinese valves replaced with 4 new x JAN Philips 12AU7's and a Mullard ECC83.
The valves here alone cost over £300!
All old caps and electrolytics have beed removed, and replaced with high spec AuDyn Reference Caps and a bucking Transformer to deal with UK 240V. This is a genuine UK version, not direct from China. It has been verified and updated by Ming Da UK, with their stamp and Bias settings.
This amplifier is at it's peak; Powerful, able to be switched from Ultralinear mode to Triode mode, able to drive almost any speakers with those KT120's: Better than the KT88's with more headroom and power. Well worth an audition.
"""
I don't have a car so it wouldn't be straightforward for me to take this to Mark but it might be easy for others. Given that I don't know the cost of service and Mark couldn't say without looking at it, I'm not quite sure how to price it. I bought it for £750 and had to pay around £40-50 to get it home in a cab.
I think £650 seems like a reasonable starting point but if others think that's too much and I need to adjust the price, I will.
Probably an easy fix for someone on here.
Will have to be collected only from Bristol due to the weight. If someone wants it and is happy to collect it, then Malvern is about an hour's drive from Bristol.
