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How about Mac and Accuphase

I have a Mac 220 preamp and an Accuphase A20 power amp, great synergy with dual concentric Tannoys. I will always have the A20, it has a very sweet sound. If I could afford it, I would replace the Mac preamp with a used Accuphase C2800 or C2810 with phono. Mac makes nice gear, Accuphase is much better built, though. Too bad that the North American Accuphase is so greedy, the prices in Japan are less than half, too bad that the voltage is 100 and that the Asian units are champagne gold.
Has anybody ever imported a Japanese Accuphase and converted the unit to 120V?
damjammer

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islandmandan
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With my 12" Tannoys, I use a tranformer-based passive line stage, and an SET 300B amp. I have used several different types of amps, but this is the hands-down winner.

The nice thing is, I bought the amp used for under $800, and had the caps and resistors upgraded, still under $1500, for the best sounding match I've found.

Different approach, lots of ways to skin the audio cat, just something to think about.

Regards,
Dan
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