Is this for real?

I wonder if they sound any good?

The person who can afford these and buys them might be very bored with so much dispensable resources at his/her disposal. I would ask if that person is able to even focus on anything for more than a half a millisecond.

Does 139K include the casters?

Buy whatever makes you happy, but this is a serious issue with the high end. Coloration passes as realistic, or neutral, and some rags deliberately promote it.

Mind you, I’m a huge CJ Premier 8 fan here. :) So I DO get it. Just don’t try to convince me I need to spend that much for color and juiciness.

<< sigh >>

I wish I had the money for the electric bills of amps like that. I totally don’t. I think it is like wine. There are those who love drinking good wine, and those who like to spend lots of money on wine, and sometimes they overlap.

Best,

E

George,

That front cover was the FPB600 and the Cary 805.

Good Listening

Peter

https://www.stereophile.com/content/wavac-sh-833-monoblock-power-amplifier-measurements

If I remember right these Wavac 833 were on the front cover of Stereophile side by side with a pair of Agostio’s Krell Monoblocks, and underneath it said (because of the measurements)

"If one of these amps is right, the other one is wrong"

This got me thinking, so I obtained a circuit of the smaller bother Wavac 805 mono blocks
https://www.wavac-audio.jp/md805mk2_e.shtml
still massive and built a pair (35kg each). I had them for a couple of months and sold them, as my Krell type monoblocks were better in every area, except for that tube colouration in the mids, which is beguiling for a short time, but not long lasting.

Cheers George

So...you can buy these amps or a house.  Well, the new ones, anyway...the amps, that is....

I guess I'll just have to get used to being a tasteless philistine with tin ears.

There are those that live in the clouds.

And there are those of us with anti-aircraft weapons. *L*

Doubt that they can compete with my Realistc receiver with 8-Track and AM/FM built in!

He probably couldn't afford them. These are thought by many to be among the very best.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/wavac-sh-833-monoblock-power-amplifier-measurements


They were reviewed in Stereophile some years ago, JA was not exactly overwhelmed by their measured performance :-)

Good Listening


Peter

Sorry fellas I just bought them.  You snooze you lose.

Kiddin'

The price is good if you build half a million dollar system, and there is quite a number of people who do or consider doing it.

Sorry, you’re off by an order of magnitude. The 833s are a mere $350,000 and it looks as if the ad has been corrected if they had mistakenly listed them as ten times that. Still not exactly cheap however 😏

I believe this is the listing in question

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-one-of-the-very-best-amps-ever-made-2017-08-31-amplifiers

Ive heard these amps and they do sound excellent, but as one suspects for the price so they should

See this link:

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-one-of-the-very-best-amps-ever-made-2017-08-31-amplifiers