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First Watt F4

For sale. Factory built, probably by NP himself in his kitchen. Bought in 2008. It is in perfect working conditions. It has its buffs and scratches as you can se in the photos. Binding posts RCA’s upgraded to Cardas. The bridges were upgraded to fast recovery ones.Serial number 640. Manual and original packing including unused power chord. I guess there is no need to describe its sonic tributes here.
$1300 plus shipping and ins. Would be shipped using USPS priority from 00920 as it was shipped originally from Pass Labs.
 

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After my initial excitement, and with a little more thought, I changed my mind about this for personal reasons. Sorry everyone for the confusion.

To be clear, my decision is in no way related to the seller, who seems to be very friendly and professional... and this seems like a killer deal as well!
 
It took me a little bit to figure this out too... you have to hover over their name, and then click 'start conversation' in the window that appears.
It seems maybe I haven't posted enough here to send pm's? I don't see any"start conversation" link in the drop down menu. This is what I see (below)

I'm good friends with @dBel84 who I imagine you all know. I've been into headphones since 2005 and I've been serious about modding orthos since about 2010. Modding orthos isn't the same as DIY'ing amps but I have a lot of respect for what you all do here.

@dBel84 sent the owner a message with my email address, so hopefully that works out. I really would love this amp. For now, I would use it to drive my modded Audeze headphones with a custom built tube preamp for voltage gain, which will hopefully just send the Audeze's to heaven with all that current.

And later when space allows and I get a pair of Maggies, I would use it to drive them with my Liquid Glass as the preamp. Hopefully it works out! 🤐

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