Watch out. If it's made for the Japan market, it probably won't work on foreign voltages. Also, Japanese FM tuners use a totally different bandwidth than you'll find in America, and I'm guessing Europe, too.Anyone bought an amplifier from Japan on Ebay and can share their experience? Luxman/Accuphase?
Yeah thanks, was looking at Step Up transformers to convert 100V - 120V. Wondering if anyone has experience that can share if it is a pain or nothing really to be concerned about.
Guys go bonkers over shiny amps and receivers from 40-50 years ago
I'd love to see objective testing of some of the old Japanese gear. I'm in my mid-50s and when I was a young kid, almost anything of Japanese manufacture was considered junk in the cultural zeitgeist, and there was still plenty of anti-Japanese sentiment floating around from those of WWII era...
WhatHiFi missed not only the boat, but the ocean with that "review". And deserves to be torpedoad and sunk for that - for good. Showing just whose pockets it is in.They never had a chance to gain traction after WhatHiFi gave a trash 2-star review of their new coaxs. Even Stereophile making the SB-C700 the second-cheapest Class A speaker currently on the list (after the LS50) didn't seem to help salvage the wrecked reputation.
The only mediocrity in these pics is the SME arm. What originally could came on DP-100 is incomparably better. Personally, from your collection I would choose Nak TT with B500/EPA250 arm - despite EPA 100MK2 looking soooo tempting. The above mentioned combo would no doubt help ameliorating vinyl's worst real world problems while accomodating most cartridges.I've a few mediocre direct drives and accessories from that time period.
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They produced a hifi bookshelf used in studio. Not a studio monitor.Well, fortunately, Yamaha is still here to save the day with their Pacificas. And they already produce one of the most solid studio monitor line at its price point.
The only mediocrity in these pics is the SME arm. What originally could came on DP-100 is incomparably better. Personally, from your collection I would choose Nak TT with B500/EPA250 arm - despite EPA 100MK2 looking soooo tempting. The above mentioned combo would no doubt help ameliorating vinyl's worst real world problems while accomodating most cartridges.
Well, DP-100/100M are rare and expensive in any shape or form - nice you could get one at reasonable price.My daily driver is an SP-10MK3 with B500 as at times I experiment a bit with cartridges - the interchangeable wands with integral counterweight are great for that use case. I also have a few high-end Technic's p-mounts and EPA-A505 wands for those.
I would've preferred a DP-100M but the DP-100 came up at a good price. I've not seen a DP-100M for less than $10K since and it's not worth it to me. The SME arm was simply because that's the armboard that the unit came with.
EPA-250 has an extremely precisely adjustable dynamic damping/antiresonator - should not pose any problems. I agree with conventional "dumb" arms, twice EM would ba a problem with per spec high compliance P-Mount carts.The trade off there is that the EM is more than double.
EPA-250 has an extremely precisely adjustable dynamic damping/antiresonator - should not pose any problems. I agree with conventional "dumb" arms, twice EM would ba a problem with per spec high compliance P-Mount carts.