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All over Audigon. Tell me what you know.
Company name?
Website?
Where are they?
How old?
Reputation?
Value?
Anyone own one/heard one?
How do they sound?
Anything else?
"Live free or die"
NT
"Live free or die"
The Hungarian guy behind this is named Janos Binder, a real estate speculator from Budapest.
My experience with him involved buying some vintage German broadcast preamps, from which the essential transformers had been deviously removed, in such a way as to prevent detection.
Jonathan
The usual search was complicated by the number of people who are called Audio Gurus. Some may call themselves a Guru. Just like an old Agonerwho made Power Cords and kits part time, but wasa full time dealer im used Suburus. His Moniker is of course Suburuguru. His cords are pretty good if he is still at it.
I came up with a paucity of info about the company from the industry directory on Audiogon. I am sure you have done this but I will render my unsubstantiated thoughts.
The name of the company isis www.tubeguru.hU., evidentily a one person manufacturer. If you go to the site there he has a header "about me" but no content. Which usually speaks volumes.
He seems to have a thing for Big ugly German vintage Kontraptions and claims his personal amps have a telephone booth style power supply and more electrolytic capacitors than would fit in a case of beer. He appears to use two circuits and simply changes tubes to make different models. I would imagine that if these amps are really as numerous as listed they must have different schematic values but keeps the same platforms.
I think his amp once again uses a pair of EL156s in a pp or a paralell quad in pp as monoblocks that he seems to be suggesting produces 850 wpc. Not a typo 850 Watts per side.
In any event he has a lot of stuff for sale but has pictures of only this freaky "ampenstein" (Sorry Izzy this really looks like a Frankenstien your ASL appears quite tame beside this) and a more conventional single ended amp.
I think this may be a case of true megalomania. If your Hungarian is up to snuff he does give you a number to call and e-mail for any questions. If you never have a chance to interrupt him you can be fairly sure he is at least manic. The messy table he decided to show the world is an indication already
The seller on Audiogon (ID Lineup) received his first AG feedback in November of 2008. Six months and dozens of Audiogon ads later, he still has a single feedback.
I realize feedback is probably not exchanged as often as it was before Audiogon's current sales commisssion policy, but apparently he's not selling many of these amplifiers.
Gerry
I would be interested in knowing where his terminal/turret boards are coming from. They look like solder pads on notched phenolic boards. What prevents the solder lumps from tearing off makes me pretty curious...
I'm not big on soldering leads to snap in caps, at least for something that will be shipped, but that certainly has no bearing on how an amp will sound....
You can see my feelings posted here:
Http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=set@n=58514&highlight=tubeguru&r=
Very mediocre sounding. Dry, bland and boring with only passable build quality. The longer I owned it, the less I liked it. I sold it to a neighbor that wanted something for his office.
They're in business a few years. The guy behind the company is odd to say the least. I'd stay away, especially at the US prices and with no service to speak of. So many good options out there from real companies. If you must have one, but it from ebay in the EU. They sell them there from time to time for less than half price. I saw the preamp for $600 which is $2000 on Audiogon!
Regards,
James
James Forgive me for intervening but you have never owned one of our amps... Its extremely disingenuous for you to word your review as if you have first hand experience... Furthermore my associate in the photo is not the designer nor the builder.. High end valve amps are way over priced and a complete rip-off at the current price points (15K- 40K) wtf... And the hierarchal offering methods were they claim too offer exponentially better performance at twice the price point is really ridicules.. We are simply trying to un-pimp the valve amplifier world (and we are not pigs)... Please feel free to pay four time as much for virtually the same acoustic performance... its your money too burn.... Or try ours for a month... And see...
Yours is not the first posting on this I have seen. No one seems to know.
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