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Mint condition, absolutely flawless Willsenton R8 tube amplifier with remote control, tube cage, power cord and original box and packaging. I’m the original owner and the unit is 3 1/2 yrs old but has been sitting covered and unused for the past 2 yrs. My 73 yr old hearing can’t appreciate audiophile music anymore unfortunately so I finally decided to part with my entire system.

This is the EL34 version and I opted to do the factory upgrade of ALL of the tubes to the Psvane EL34-PH power tubes and the Psvane CV-181 TII and Tung Sol 6SL7 preamp tubes which was an extra $520. These are all premium tubes with very low usage.

Easy to use external biasing access points.

This unit in this configuration would currently cost you $1743 shipped from China Hi-Fi.

These are killer amps that if made in the USA would probably cost in the $4-$5K range.
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Shipped price for $1350 obo**

Here’s the specs copied from China Hi-Fi website.

• Willsenton R8 is an integrated Amplifier, it is a Power Amplifier too (there is a group Power amp input), it is a Headphones amp too.
• One amplifier can used wiht tube EL34, KT88 or 6550, so, you can get 3 kinds of sound from different models tubes if you buy more 2 new sets of tube.
• Triode and ultra-linear Switchable

Features:
• Pure hand-made, Point to point manual welding.
• Use a square power transformer specially developed for this machine.
• The output transformer uses two high quality wideband EI output transformers.
• The preamp stage uses one 6SN7 for power supply filtering.
• The voltage amplification stage and the driver stage use two pairs of 6SL7 and 6SN7 tubes, respectively.
• The power amp stage uses four KT88/6550/EL34 tubes for class AB Push-pull power amplification.
• Triode and ultra-linear selection are available. The triode works in a soft, pure-and sleek sound, suitable for listening to vocals, strings and other types of music. Ultra-linear working mode, sound-tone open, unrestrained, good momentum, suitable for enjoying big scenes, big dynamics and other types of music.
• External independent BIAS-ADJ current display header. Adjustment and BIAS meter monitoring function keeps the best state of the power tube at all times.
• External EL34/KT88 tube selection function, easy to replace different types of tubes, adding endless fun.
• Infrared full-featured remote control.
• Use thick silver plated signal leads.
• With pure post-level function, it can be connected to independent preamplifier signal input.
• Power on mute delay function, soft-start feature to prolong tube life (about 30 seconds).
• Select Japanese ALPS high-end motor potentiometer.
• Easy-to-install plug-in tube cage cover.

Product parameters:
FTC rated output power : 16W+16W triode (8Ω, 20HZ-20KHZ, THD 1%) (KT88)
: 30W+30W ultra-linear (8Ω, 20HZ-20KHZ, THD 1%) (KT88)
: 12W+12W triode (8Ω, 20HZ-20KHZ, THD 1%) (EL34)