Sunvalley SV-S1616D [300B]

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#29
The price is $1,475.00. Given the current global shipping problem, it seems that I must ship out of Japan via Air Cargo to Vancouver instead of ocean freight.. If I can ship out via Ocean Freight, I can sell at $1,375.00...

Sunvalley SV1616D is a traditional amp design... tube rectifier/choke/...
In fact Sunvalley keeps the same design for more than 20 years...
Mr Ohashi is a musican and audiophile. The amp design is based on sound..

ELEKIT tube amp is not a traditional tube amp design..
ELEKIT is changing the design model by model. The life span of each model is very short except TU-8200 and TU-8500.
Mr. Fujita is not an audiophile..His design is based on spec..
Both are good but they are using different approaches
 
#30
Neville said:
Do you have final price and how it compares to Elekit?
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Stereophile Aug 2021...Herb Reichert is reviewing Feliks Audio Arioso (300B Amp) and is comparing his "Long Favored" Elekit TU-8600S. He goes on to say.."I immediately noticed the TU-8600S's reach-out-and-hug-me fullness. The Elekit has a way of making sound..sound embracing. It's not warm or soft, too wet or to dry, but it is supple and yielding, and - dare I say it - feminine. With the Elekit, vocal and instrumental tones are presented with a hormone-infused purity ....both Amps are using EH Gold 300Bs. The review goes into 2 pages on the history of Western Electric 300B...Herb is using the TU-8600S with a selection of 300B tubes, Takatsuki, Linlai-Cossor, EH Gold, Psvane and US made WE 300B reissue. You will need to Buy the magazine on what Each tube sounds in TU-8600S...:smirk:...but based on Herbs ears...No one has matched the WE 300B.
 
#38
Nice options to choose from between the TU-8900 with Lundahl Amophorous core OPT upgrade and the SV-1616D Hashimoto H 20-3.5U

Will say my preference is for point to point wiring and tube rectification. Then again GR-Research Danny Ritchie owns an 8600 which he hot-rodded, and Herb Reichert (formerly with AudioNote), knows the hi-end market of stratospherically expensive products, has written some very good reviews of the TU-8600(R, S) giving it a $tereophile recommended components B rating. IIRC the Cary Audio Electronic Supply AE-1 300B kit may have got a C rating, could have been a D rating, IDK???

Btw, any possibility of offering Hashimoto power transformer and choke to go along with the H-20.3.5U upgrade?
 
#39
All the stock transfomers are made in Japan. I can add Hashimoto Choke.
There is no more Tango OPT manufacturing in Japan. Tumura will not offer custom made OPT. Hashimoto is one of the best options.

I am working very hard to get the best from SV1616D.

Afforable and Good Quality is my Motto.
 
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