Willsenton R8 integrated amp with upgraded tube option

dragon1952

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)

pitdogg2

Beautiful! ❤️

xschop

I'm a fan of the design.

dragon1952

Thanks guys. BTW, it can take KT88's also, just need to adjust the bias.