Regarding DK Design Vs.1 Reference Mk2 amp ???


Does anybody know the answer to this question ? If the DK Design Vs.1 Reference Mk2 is such a good amp why so many people are selling it ????
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Showing 8 responses by jax2

That's an easy one: The best amplfier on the face of the planet just got better! Now it's even better than the best. It's the bestest amp ever...PERIOD....all friggen bets are off! Likely will be for a good long time too....until they release the Mk IV. Then it'll serve better use as a door stop or a boat anchor. By then you'll be sure to see those Mk III's at the highway exits in big city's with cardboard signs reading, "Will Amplify for Small Change...God Bless" Sheeit, there's even a Mk I turning tricks down in the Central District! I ran into an Audiophile at a meeting who'd succumbed in a moment of weakness and got some rash that he can't get rid of now.

Marco
personnaly, i thought it was a good question. small>

A brilliant and insightful question no doubt. One that is asked ad nauseum
on practically a daily basis about any given component that has miraculously
been succeeded by something better, faster, cheaper, prettier, more modern,
using the very latest technology has to offer, thicker billet, more blue lights,
please your wife in bed with a bigger johnson, blah, blah, blah. Watch your
hard earned dollars turn the gears of capitalism! Effective advertising and
promotion....and DK has thus far been a master at that. I have nothing
whatsoever against them or their amps, or their mastery of promotion, but I
think the fervor that kind of advertising and promotion causes is hilarious.
That kind of crap is so easy to make fun of because I deal with it in my work
every day. I'm not really making fun of DK as much as the folks who buy into
the steady stream of upgradidis. Hey, I speak from experience. I went
through the program and got help. Had the shakes and cold sweats
something fierce for what seemed like weeks on end. Finally busted out of
Betty Ford when the Chief put a hole in the wall with that big-ass sink. Now
I'm back here making fun of the pushers and the junkies while I shoot up with
another fix of silver speaker wire and NOS tubes.

It's a damn fine question, and I'm sorry I didn't think of it myself. Why the
heck are you guys selling off your DK amps? Was it that recall about the
exploding gas tanks on the Mk 2? Maybe it's because the new amps come
with a half dozen drool buckets you can hand out to your friends when they
listen to your system! No more cleaning up those pesky puddles of drool like
there was with the Mk 1 and Mk 2. In addition, the buckets are large enough,
and engineered in such a way that they can actually catch their jaws before
they drop and hit the floor, for which your friends will be eternally grateful.

Marco
Mark my words, those DK drool buckets with the patented "Jaw Receptacle" will be a coveted collector's item once discontinued, and you'll rue the day you didn't plunk down your plastic for a Mk III and dump that Mk II. Folks'll soon be singing the praises of the nostalgic old-days when DK gave them out for free with their amps, etched deeply with the DK logo. There'll be debates as to whether the more modern, plastic drool vacuums are a more effective with their whisper-quiet motor that tucks neatly into your asscrack to add to your listening pleasure. They've come a long way since the monogrammed DK drool bib of days of yore. And what a welcome change that was from the Bose spitoon (man, I hated cleaning those things out back in the 70's!).

Marco
Foster_9 - It's hopeless for me. I'm a lost cause. Get yourself out while you have still can my friend. There's a change of guard at the gates at Midnight and the new guy's got a girlfriend he sneaks in. Just wait for the lights to go out and the music to start and make a break for it. Don't look back, just keep running as fast as you can till you reach civilization. Don't wait another day to think about it...and if Albert Porter offers you any grape Kool Aid™ whatever you do, don't drink the stuff!!!

Marco
Don't stop your rants, Marco.

Hey, if I can save just one hapless newbee from the torment and pain I've gone through it'll all be worth it. Alternatively knowing that I got some sorry, desperate, trembling audio-junkie to look in the mirror and laugh his couch-potato-ass off at what he sees, well then it will not have been a complete waste of my valuable time. Rest assured I am right there laughing with him. Hey, wait a minute, he looks a whole lot like me!

Marco
Why don't you write the people advertising the DK's for sale, ask them, and report back?

Yeah, you can write all 14 of them (current count as of this writing) and let us know! I'll be holding my breath, so please don't take too long to post those responses!

Marco
Where's "Betterthencrack" when you need him?!?!

I'm turning blue here holding my breath, and now there are sixteen Mk II's
including two auctions. Three Mk III's too...maybe you oughta ask them as
well!

In comparison there are four Bose 901 speaker sets for sale. There are three
PrimaLuna amps which have also undergone a popular and rapid sucession of
their line (Prologue One, Two and Three...and one other as I seem to recall).
Jolida Amps...there are currently five used ones for sale...two 202's and three
302's. There are a buttload of Pass Labs X series amps currently for sale,
which exceeds the number of DK. What's it all really mean in the grand
scheme of high-end audio, as far as you, the individual user is concerned?
IMNSHO, absolutely whatever you want it to mean. You can speculate till the
cows come home. It still will mean the same (no)thing!!! Judge the stuff with
the two ears you got, and all three if you've got an extra! Make up your own
damn mind. No doubt DK has a product worthy of your consideration, in
whatever encarnation. So do a whole gaggle of other amp manufacturers (is
that "gaggle" or "herd"??!!).

Marco
....Peter Cincotti is singing the Godfather theme in the background.

Don Staples, er, ah, Larry ain't jokin' folks. We found a horses head in our bed the other night!! Me and the Mrs. and Diesel are getting into the witness protection program so this may be the last you'll hear from me! Anyone know the best way to get blood stains out of white sheets?

Marco