You'll find a lot of information at http://www.netasia.net/users/charleskeng/fm2.htm.
Here in Switzerland the general opinion amongst the cognoscienti is, that they are madly overpriced for what they have to offer. This also goes for their repairs out of guarantee. HP of TAS liked their preamps and TAS carried their advertising for a while about ten and more years ago. You don't find them in the shops here in the country, there is no advertising and they hardly appear in the used lists. Dealers scoff at them, but that of course means nothing much. Personally I've owed some of their early amps, the 600 and the 800, which were typically SS in their sound, somewhat grainy and generally a disapointment. But that was in the seventies. Since then, they must have taken a great step forward, but nobody can tell you here, what they are really like. Gossip has it, that they go all into export, since here in the country there is no market for them because of their prices. Our own Gregm here at Audiogon has listened to them somewhere in Europe and was very much impressed and he's a golden eared one. Why don't you get in touch with him and tell him that " Detlof sent you".
Cheers,
Here in Switzerland the general opinion amongst the cognoscienti is, that they are madly overpriced for what they have to offer. This also goes for their repairs out of guarantee. HP of TAS liked their preamps and TAS carried their advertising for a while about ten and more years ago. You don't find them in the shops here in the country, there is no advertising and they hardly appear in the used lists. Dealers scoff at them, but that of course means nothing much. Personally I've owed some of their early amps, the 600 and the 800, which were typically SS in their sound, somewhat grainy and generally a disapointment. But that was in the seventies. Since then, they must have taken a great step forward, but nobody can tell you here, what they are really like. Gossip has it, that they go all into export, since here in the country there is no market for them because of their prices. Our own Gregm here at Audiogon has listened to them somewhere in Europe and was very much impressed and he's a golden eared one. Why don't you get in touch with him and tell him that " Detlof sent you".
Cheers,