Andre Jute
September 11th 06, 04:29 PM
wrote:
> Andre Jute wrote:
> > Larry Lisle in Glass Audio (Volume 10 No. 1 1998)
> Do you still use the Miyabe 4x300B you reviewed in that issue of GA?
> Thanks.
> Frank B.
Yeah. While I was looking up the Larry Listle article I was
recommending, my eye caught the index on the font cover and I was
reminded of the Miyabe. I unboxed it and am playing it right now. I
fitted four new WE 300B last year sometime and had to put it aside just
about when they were broken in nicely.
For those who don't know, the Triode Supply, Japan, VPD-3000B as it is
called in Australia for some inexplicable reason, or Miyabe as it is
called in civilized parts of the world, is an SEPP 300B giving a very
clean 16W or so, enough to drive ESL63 nicely. For several years it was
the best selling 300B amp and kit amp as well in Japan for a good
reason, that the components and casework are of such a quality, and
the sound and reliability so superior, that it the Miyabe is well worth
the price. My review and the circuit is in Glass Audio Volume 10 No. 1
1998. One of the golden goodies that cast a warm sunshiney glow over
the memory of great listening sessions. Of all the kit amps I've built,
and I've built some really good ones (no Chinese copies of trash amps),
the Miyabe is the only one to rank as an equal for sound quality and
bulletproof construction to the justifiably famous Audio Innovations
Classic Stereo 25.
Of course, so they should: they cost more as kits than many perfectly
reputable ready-built items; the point is that they towered so over
almost everything that it became irrelevant, expensive as they were,
that they were clearly very good value only because a DIYer zero-rates
his labour.
The Miyabe is still made, I believe, but Audio Innovations was sold and
the new owners took them out of the tube amp business altogether.
Andre Jute
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> Andre Jute wrote:
> > Larry Lisle in Glass Audio (Volume 10 No. 1 1998)
> Do you still use the Miyabe 4x300B you reviewed in that issue of GA?
> Thanks.
> Frank B.
Yeah. While I was looking up the Larry Listle article I was
recommending, my eye caught the index on the font cover and I was
reminded of the Miyabe. I unboxed it and am playing it right now. I
fitted four new WE 300B last year sometime and had to put it aside just
about when they were broken in nicely.
For those who don't know, the Triode Supply, Japan, VPD-3000B as it is
called in Australia for some inexplicable reason, or Miyabe as it is
called in civilized parts of the world, is an SEPP 300B giving a very
clean 16W or so, enough to drive ESL63 nicely. For several years it was
the best selling 300B amp and kit amp as well in Japan for a good
reason, that the components and casework are of such a quality, and
the sound and reliability so superior, that it the Miyabe is well worth
the price. My review and the circuit is in Glass Audio Volume 10 No. 1
1998. One of the golden goodies that cast a warm sunshiney glow over
the memory of great listening sessions. Of all the kit amps I've built,
and I've built some really good ones (no Chinese copies of trash amps),
the Miyabe is the only one to rank as an equal for sound quality and
bulletproof construction to the justifiably famous Audio Innovations
Classic Stereo 25.
Of course, so they should: they cost more as kits than many perfectly
reputable ready-built items; the point is that they towered so over
almost everything that it became irrelevant, expensive as they were,
that they were clearly very good value only because a DIYer zero-rates
his labour.
The Miyabe is still made, I believe, but Audio Innovations was sold and
the new owners took them out of the tube amp business altogether.
Andre Jute
Visit Jute on Amps at http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/
"wonderfully well written and reasoned information
for the tube audio constructor"
John Broskie TubeCAD & GlassWare
"an unbelievably comprehensive web site
containing vital gems of wisdom"
Stuart Perry Hi-Fi News & Record Review