Closed: Upgraded Elekit TU-8900 Balanced input and (Headphones only) with tubes
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5,500.00 USD
Condition
Good
Negotiability
Or best offer
Ships to
  1. North America
Up for listing is DIY TU-8900 Elekit with all the upgrades (tubes included)

solder is Oyaide High-Grade silver audiophile solder

V-Cap CU capacitors

Lundahl output transformers

Lundahl Balanced Input transformers with Takman and Sprauge (balanced and or single ended alike)

Neotech large Awg Pure UPOCC-Silver for Transformers signals lines

Cardas XLR Input (rhodium silver plated)

Western Electric 300B current production pair (If anyone want to buy tubes pairs alone, please PM me. I prefer selling everything as a package, and selling tubes alone only when amp was sold)

Kenrad 2A3 matching pair NOS, about 100 Hours

Pure Solid core Silvers internally together with the PCB traces to further improve sound signature

Negative feed back network can be optioned on or off

4.4mm Pentaconn Socket modified in onto the chassis

**RCA input is omitted (only using XLR Cardas with internal solid silver wires)
** Speakers taps omitted (only using headphones which is hardwired with solid silver wires)
** Gain features is omitted, set at only 1 condition
Gain built is High-impedance and Low gain (hard-wired)

The kits alone without additional upgrades is sitting about upper 3K, plus tubes….etc…I am asking a fair price for it.

I am Total confident that once you hear it with your headphones, you will just fall in love with it. So I will state it out loud and proudly be saying that, you can have the Amp to listen to as an audition for 1 week. I will hold on to your payment, until you really decided to take it off my hands then. All you need to do is packing it up nicely and as securely as I packed it to you, ship it back, and then reimburse me with my out going shipping. For this, I prefer PP FF, yes, I will then refund under the same conditions when You decided that this Amp is not fit to sit on your desktop

TU-8900 Elekit: this kit is engineered from Japan, and DIY is required to put them together, they are built with different dedications, and modifications. Mine is dedicated toward signal integrity and headphones usages .

However, with the well designed architecture and it lay out, the TU-8900 was engineered to stand the test of time. Therefore, there should not be any complications with it.

Known bugs: Due to me and my rage, while drilling for the chassis in the back to fit in the Cardas XLR, it look crooked, but does not effect sound quality.

Only WE-300B will have some noises at start up, for about 15-20 minutes, and then will go away, this problem is well known for WE-300B (current productions). The others 300B doesn’t have this issues

some scratches here and there on the body

Working conditions :
Excellent ! It can take in either 300B or 2A3, and auto-bias , you don’t need to lift any fingers, just plug and play

Why am I selling ? Thank to covid lingering ripples effects. Also, I can help building this kit if anyone have any inquiries, they can pm me.

Listed by: Whitigir (23)
Listed: 2022-07-12
Last edited: 2023-03-15
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Whitigir

Member of the Trade: Portable Modder
Breakdown in price
TU-8900 upgraded kit $3800 approximately
We-300B pair $1500
Kenrad Nos $550
Upgraded balance input $1200

Not counting any other upgrades such as pure solid wires internally etc..

I am willing to sell this at losses, I try quitting the hobby

Feel free to give me offer. I would rather sell as a whole package deal
 
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purk

Headphoneus Supremus
No doubt that this will sound nothing short of amazing! Vince knows his stuff. He successfully built a DIY T2 after all and many others! Good lucks and congrats to the new owner!
 

Lickumms

500+ Head-Fier
Wow, you put a lot of work into that amp. It looks incredible.
Probably not the right place to ask this. Where did you get the Lundahl transformers? I'm thinking about getting this amp for speakers. Also, did you prefer the 2a3 or the 300B in the amp?
 
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