Anyone listened to a Wavac?

I heard their stuff at the shows. I think they had the 805 amps running, which was nice. The new anniversary Sh-833's were also running, those were way over the top. Not sure on price but the better part of $100k I bet. Sounded great, nice build quality as expected. Huge chassis (4 pcs per side). THe one amp of theirs I wanted to hear but wasn't on display was the 4304 amp (834-based) which looked quite cool. Unfortunately all their stuff is quite pricey....I suspect it could be had for about 1/2 the US retail price by shopping for it in Japan. (like most japanese audio products). The sounds overall are quite good, though for the money of the US prices, I think you could have something even more exotic that would sound as good or better. (custom built).

-Ed

Jim, 4304 = 834 - just different basing between them, if anything. it's a cylindrical plate triode that had grid and plate pins, right? Well designed for A2 operation (as is the norm with the IIT/shishido set up of most Wavac stuff I think.) Wish I could afford it. ;-)

-Ed