New VAC Integrated Tube Amp

F1nut
F1nut Posts: 50,668
edited April 2005 in 2 Channel Audio
This is one beautiful amp. 100 wpc with a separate power supply and remote control. Price 18k. Daddy wants! :D
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited April 2005
    Damn that's a serious amp:eek: .

    Maurice
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2005
    Ugly.

    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited April 2005
    Good on ya'! Screw a bunch of black boxes, indulge yourself.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2005
    Gag. Ugly squared.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,668
    edited April 2005
    And that coming from two of the ugliest guys on this forum. :p
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited April 2005
    Yea I'm not crazy on how it looks a bit too cluttered on the front. I think that matte black or something similar would look a bit better than that stainless siver stuff but other than that.... *droooool*
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited April 2005
    Wouldn'y be bad lookin' if they'd lose the embossed logo...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,668
    edited April 2005
    The logo is engraved and only "glows" when the amp is on. It has lights at the bottom of the glass.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited April 2005
    Oh... in that case I guess you could just leave the amp off... :D
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2005
    Originally posted by F1nut
    And that coming from two of the ugliest guys on this forum. :p

    :D
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited April 2005
    and those are some ugly **** knobs as well...
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,668
    edited April 2005
    Here's a better shot of the amp and a link to the full story.

    http://www.vac-amps.com/Phi_Beta.htm

    Just for you Bruce, the "Intensity of illuminated VAC logo varies with ambient room light level." And for you PM, those knobs look kind of like some of the ones used on Cary pre amps, another top class hifi company.

    Daddy will own one, one day. :D
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited April 2005
    I like my tubes exposed. Screw that behind the glass crap. F1, that 100wpc wouldn't keep you happy for a day and you know it. :)

    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited April 2005
    Tube flashers and knob snobs!!! :D

    (dibs on the MF Tri-Vista)
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited April 2005
    I've got dibs on the Tri-Vista thank you very much! :)

    On second thought, yea F1, that amp is you. :D
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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