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Bud Fried Tower

Fried Audio Bud Friend Tower Loudspeaker System – $2,995 US Retail. The Bud Fried Tower by Fried Audio is a outstanding floor-standing two way speaker based on many of the ideals espoused by Bud Friend in his loudspeaker designs: Soft Dome Tweeter: Bud Fried earned a reputation for utilizing the best price/performance drivers in the […]

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Merlin VSM

Merlin VSM Introduction – Please Read – Due to the passing of my close friend, Bobby A Plakovic, Owner/President of Merlin Music System in August of 2015, Merlin Music Systems has ceased business operations shortly thereafter and is now closed. Without Bobby (who pretty much was Merlin) and the dire straits the company was left […]

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Merlin TSM

Merlin TSM Introduction – Please Read – Due to the passing of my close friend, Bobby A Plakovic, Owner/President of Merlin Music System in August of 2015, Merlin Music Systems has ceased business operations shortly thereafter and is now closed. Without Bobby (who pretty much was Merlin) and the dire straits the company was left […]

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Signature Sound High-End Audio

3 weeks ago

We have a beautiful pair of Joule-Electra VZN-100MKIV 100W OTL amplifiers now for sale. This pair of amps was commissioned (made) in December 2005 and they are in perfect working order. These amps have the later gen revised (green) main circuit boards and other power supply refinements not found on older versions. Retail new in the Piano Black MusicWood (hardwood lattice type construction) enclosures, these retailed for $18,000 new! Yours for $5,750 plus shipping for the pair.

Notes about Joule OTLs and this specific pair of amps:

1) These amplifiers a utilize a Class A circltron OTL amplifier topology. Translation: no output transformers for exceptionally wide bandwidth and tube purity tonality AND HEAT! Class A tube power is not efficient and these amps will pump around 900W of heat into your room. A dedicated circuit for your system when using these amps is a good idea - they will draw around 8 amps from the wall.
2) While the amplifiers are monoblocks, they both plug (via umbilical cables) into the square power supply with the knob on top (this is called the Variac unit) which forms part of the power supply for both amplifiers. Only ONE AC power cord goes from the Variac Unit to your wall outlet (or power conditioner). The umbilical cables attached to the Variac Unit allow the amps to be placed around 10ft apart at most.
3) This pair of amplifiers did NOT arrive here in the condition you see here. Their owner made a mistake in packaging and one of the amplifiers received some damage to the amplifier's enclosure. There was no electrical damage to the amp, but a bunch of tubes got busted. The damage to the enclosure was repaired by me and then I had BOTH enclosures professionally re-painted by a gent who knows what he is doing who did a great job. Any waviness, chips, or cracks in the finish are gone - these amps look better than when they were new. Most ALL of the tubes have been replaced, remaining original tubes where only used if in excellent condition.
4) These amps have a unique modification which I made to them two years ago when they where here for some service. The variac in the external Variac power enclosure was replaced with a larger capacity unit and fully re-wired. Plus the roughly filtered DC power arrangement for the 6C33 (output tubes) filaments was switched to AC power. Since the tube filament string in these amps draw a large amount of power through the Variac, switching to AC power on the output tube filaments reduced the amount of mechanical (vibration) noise from the Variac unit significantly with NO cost to the electrical noise these amplifiers generate at their outputs (i.e through your speakers).
5) This brings me to my last note. Joule-Electra OTLs are NOT very quiet or noise free. On a typical 87db efficient speaker, you WILL hear some amount of buzz/hum/hiss (which will vary depending on the amps feedback setting you are using with your speakers) from your speakers when you are standing right next to your speakers. These amps are not for folks with high efficiency speakers in general. Having said that, I and many of my customers over the past 20 years have very happily used VZN-100s with Merlin VSMs (90 dB efficiency). ... See MoreSee Less

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Love OTL ❤️

Merlin with OTL = Magic ❤️

Signature Sound High-End Audio

3 weeks ago

This one owner used Rega P 3/24 was purchased new from us back in 2009 with the Rega Elys2 cartridge AND Rega TTPSU that you see in the pictures. The owner has kept the table in superb cosmetic condition (even the dustcover which is usually full of light swirl mark scratches in a table of this age is nice and clear). It is also in excellent working order. It has been well used though as the cartridge does not quite have the sparkle of a new Elys2, it tracks well and sounds fine though I estimate that the cartridge is about 3/4's of the way through its useful life. The owner has lost the factory packaging, but we can safely package and box the table for FedEs/UPS ground shipment. The table does come with all its original documentation.

Retail new, this was about a $1,400 - $1,450 package (table, cartridge, and TPSU) this table will make for a great LP set-up as is for someone just getting (back) into vinyl or upgrading from Rega P1 or entry level Project, U-Turn etc tables.Only $795 plus shipping.

If you are interested, we can also package this table with a new Rega, Hana, or Clearuadio cartridge for a few dollars more and keep the existing Elys2 on the table as a spare/backup. ... See MoreSee Less

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Signature Sound High-End Audio

1 month ago

We have this sweet used Ars Sonum Filarmonia SK now for sale. It is in excellent condition (all tubes tested and are in great shape) and ready to go. This is the SK version of the Filarmonia which dates from around 2016-17 and has a number of significant upgrades over earlier SE and SJ versions (new power transformer and V-Cap, Uptone coupling capacitors, and better RCA jacks). Great 30W/ch pure class A power, this amp was around $5000 when new, this used Filarmonia SK is yours for $2,300 plus shipping.

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Signature Sound High-End Audio

1 month ago

Our demo iFi Audio iDSD Pro is for sale! This unit has low hours and is in mint condition. Comes complete with factory packaging, manual, remote and all other accessories. This DAC is a master of all things... fixed or variable output, balanced or RCA output, tube or Class A solid state output stage, multiple digital filtering and up-sampling (PCM or DSD) if you want, headphone outputs and much more. Retail new, these are $2499, this demo iDSD Pro (with full warranty) is yours for $1,900 plus shipping.

Please feel free to contact us via e-mail, message, or phone with any questions or your request to purchase. ... See MoreSee Less