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Hello SNA Members! Here for sale is my beloved Sonus Faber Toy Monitors. Only about 5 months old, and barely ruin in. I'm selling this due to downsizing to a headphone system, need room for my Graphic Design computer setup. I LOVE these speakers. But they have to go. I have the original receipts. Ken Kessler from HiFi News loves these! Here's his review http://www.hifinews.co.uk/news/article/sonus-faber-toy-pound;745/9465/ I will deliver to anywhere in Melbourne for free. Interstaters you will pay and organise your own freight, I will ship in the original box. You will bear all the responsibility for the condition as they work perfectly. I look after my equipment. * Item: Sonus Faber Toy Monitor * Location Kilsyth South, Victoria * Item condition description Immaculate, Used * Price and price conditions $900 * Reason for selling Downsizing to headphone setup * Payment Methods: Paypal, Cash on Pickup

Hello SNA members. I'm selling my beloved Rega Brio 3 amplifier and Sonus Faber Toy Monitors. (For Sale in another posting) This is a great combination, and have had much pleasure from it. Beautiful silky sound, but also, you can hear the midrange clearly and superb imaging. I'm selling these items as I only have a small room, and I need the available space for my graphic design setup, so I'm keeping my turntable and phono pre-amp and hooking up a headphone setup. This sale will fund it! I would love to keep this combo, But other needs come first! I've got all the original receipts. I've had the amp since early 2011 I will deliver for free to anyone in metropolitan Melbourne, Interstaters can pay, and organise there own shipping, I have all the original boxes, and it will be shipped in these. You bear all the responsibility for the condition of the goods when they arrive. I look after my equipment, and both items work faultlessly. * Item: Rega Brio 3 (bought in early 2011) * Location: Kilsyth South, Victoria * Condition: Immaculate, Used * Price and price conditions: $450 * Reason for selling Downsizing to a headphone setup * Payment Methods: Paypal, Direct Debit, Cash on pickup

Item: Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor (RRP: $5999) Location: Adelaide (Will post interstate in original packaging at buyers cost) Price: $3300 Item Condition: 8/10 - Fantastic condition with only a couple of faint marks around the handmade housing if you look very hard. Drivers are mint. Great working order Reason for selling: Funding major upgrade Payment Method: Pickup - EFT, COD, Paypal (buyer to cover PayPal fees) Extra Info: These speakers have amazing clarity and surprising bass. They will image beautifully when driven with good gear. Original manufacturers stands were a bit full on for me, so I purchased Lovan isolated stands which are much more elegant - I am happy to do a deal on these as well. See http://www.sumikoaudio.net/sonus/prod_cremonaauditor.htm#spec for technical details. Plenty of glowing reviews going around: http://www.audioreview.com/cat/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/sonus-faber/cremona-auditor/prd_327880_1594crx.aspx and http://www.audioaficionado.org/sonus-faber/909-sonus-faber-cremona-auditors-review-reprint.html Pictures: See below

Further information: Exceptionally popular with DIY horn-speaker aficionados, the HF-108 are superbly extended & smooth performers with very uniform frequency response (from 800hz-20khz when suitably horn loaded) and excellent tonality, aided by their Keytone Polymer (i.e: non-metallic) diaphragms. Featuring an Annular Phase Plug and high sensitivity of 109dB SPL This pair is essentially as new and function as such, with perhaps 25 hours of gentle use. I purchased 4 new pairs of different make/model compression drivers to measure and perform listening tests in a pair of horn speakers I've been developing, this pair is now surplus to requirements. Includes Mounting Bolts. Throat Diameter 1" / 25.4mm Impedance 8 ohms Sensitivity (1W/1m) 109dB SPL AES Power Handling 60 Watts Program Power Handling 120 Watts Frequency Response 1.0kHz - 20kHz Recommended Crossover 1.3kHz @12 dB/oct. Voice Coil Diameter 1.73" / 44mm Winding Depth 0.09" / 2.3mm Magnetic Gap Depth 0.1" / 2.85mm Flux Density 2.1T Mounting Information Overall Diameter 3.43" / 87mm Overall Depth 1.61" / 41mm Mounting (2) M6 threaded holes 180° apart on 3" diameter Mounting (3) M6 threaded holes 120° apart on 2.25" diameter Net Weight 1.8 lb. / .8 kg. Shipping Weight 2.6 lb. / 1.2 kg. Materials Diaphragm Ketone Polymer Voice Coil Aluminum Voice Coil Former Kapton Diaphragm Shape Dome Phase Plug Design Annular Terminals Faston Magnet Neodymium Photos: PLEASE READ If you are advertising multiple items, you must post one bulk price only, or post seperate ads for each item If you include any reference to pricing whatsoever in this section (excluding RRP), your ad will not be approved If you don't include photographs of the actual item being sold, your ad will not be approved

Presented in immaculate condition, this heirloom quality matching chassis design pair are fully customised with circuit optimisation blueprints received via consultation with Gruppo Ricerche Audio Alta Fedeltà chief designer Giovanni Mariani. Exquisitely unique as they are rare, these Italian masterpieces are inclusive of original factory boxes, all documentation and shall also be supplied with a comprehensive caché of exotic and highly prized tubes, thus enabling the new owner an absolute plethora of über-sonic tuning possibilities ! The Graaf GM-50B LTD. is a hand-built, all tube Fully Balanced Push Pull Integrated Amplifier which impresses with an exuberantly musical and highly deceptive output rating of 50w RMS per channel. Its elegantly understated chassis is finished in a resplendent triple coat of Black Glasurit paint applied by the Ferrari coach-works in Modena exclusively for Graaf. Functioning in true fully balanced configuration requires the complete doubling of the electronic circuits from input to output. Incorporating massive custom wound Italian made transformers, expanded capacity power supplies and essential to ensuring optimal balanced signal CMRR, the industrial grade circuit boards are populated with not only hand-matched precision tolerance components, but also of selected compositions informed with the aid of critical listening assessment. An exclusive feature of the output stage regards the use of transformers with a centre tapped ground terminal in the secondary windings. Such a solution enables a true balanced output configuration for the feedback circuit facilitating a more linear, precise & stable correction. Component selection specific to circuit location includes: Shinkoh tantalum, Riken, Kiwame & Takman carbon, ATE, Mills & Ohmite Gold wirewound non-inductive resistors Italian Kendeil HC, Elna Silmic II, SBE Film & Foil copper leadout capacitors ON Semi Silicon Carbide high current Schottky rectifiers for all individual dc supply rails Gold Plated WBT-0730 Topline 5 way Speaker Posts Power-on operation incorporates a delay in which the circuit first enters a muted warm-up phase until all tubes have reached operating temperature, all functions are operable via included remote control. It features 6 line level inputs of which two pairs are balanced, and additionally incorporates a Tape output/monitoring input. All functions are relay switched and unselected input routings are shorted to ground to prevent extraneous EMI/RFI injection. The tube complement comprises 2 x E88CC, 2 x 6H30P & 2 x 6550 per channel. These may also be substituted with equivalent types, of which a superlative variety are included. Purchaser shall acquire fully tested, matched & documented quads of: 1969 triple getter Tung-Sol 6550 1979 Voskhod 'Rocket' 6H23P NIB Philips/Sylvania ECG 6550 NIB ARS GE 6550A Welded Plates NIB Gold Aero KT-99A Welded Plate (EI KT-90 Type II) NIB Current prod. Tung-Sol KT-120 NIB Pair 1979 Gold Grid 6H6P Pair 1986 6H30P-DR 'Supertube' Pair 6H30PiEH The Graaf GM-50 Ltd. elicits pure listening pleasure by virtue of its masterful ability to present music with both innate resolution and majestic fluidity. Power Output 50W RMS x 2 THD: 0.15% Negative Feedback: 12dB Frequency Response: 10hz - 100khz (0.25dB) Input Impedance: 100K Ohms Dimensions (W x H x D) 450mm x 160mm x 500mm Weight 30kg Quotes from: https://www.kenkessler.com/hi-fi/graaf-gm50-integrated-amplifier-review/ "...Its perceived value is so far beyond what most of the traditional brands offer that it's almost painful. No buzzes, sneezes hums or crackles, just deliriously realistic music against a black, velvety background." "No kidding, the GM-50 drove the Wilsons to levels I would never credit to amp below 100w. At the same time it assembled a sound stage that was both vast and correct, Utterly convincing in terms of dimensions and ratio" Quotes from What HIFI... https://www.whathifi.com/graaf/gm50/review "Stunning sonic transparency, refinement and stereo-imaging & superb build quality" "Most valve amps would curl up and die when faced with driving the £8800 Wilson-Benesch ACT speakers to high volumes, but not this. And it makes the ACTs deliver deep bass louder and truer than just about any speakers we know" "The GM50 is one of the best amplifiers we've ever tested, capable of serious sonic magic." -------------------------------- ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ The Graaf GM-70 final edition, is a reference class phono preamplifier, meticulously hand-built, calibrated and voiced to an extraordinary level of competence. Its pure tube circuit is comprised of 4 separate dual triode stages utilising a total of 8 premium 6922 type tubes, or equivalents thereof. Selectable input gain facility is provided for both MM and MC cartridges. The philosophy of the design focusses upon the full exploitation of the active elements such that superfluous circuits which could interfere with musicality could be avoided. Therefore RF filtering is obtained without recourse to a passive network and so too, additional sensitivity for MC cartridges is achieved without the detriment of an additional active stage. Instead a variable gain element has been devised, facilitating both a simpler layout and greater transparency to the music. Power and Gain selection are enabled by touch sensitive switches, and both incorporate timed tube heating and relay switching for optimised silent swapping between modes as well as providing a standby mode in which both the filaments and high tension are maintained at a much reduced voltage to ensure maximum tube longevity, whilst retaining near-instant return to listening mode. Thus foregoing a concomitant delay in which the all tube circuit would typically require before reaching optimum stability. Cartridge Loading is easily selectable with 5 default values (38R - 56R - 100R - 500R - 1K) and a 6th hot swappable custom user configurable load position (included are 47K/330p & 68K load plugs). RIAA eq. is comprised of a completely passive network placed after the gain stage, its components have been calibrated with the utmost care to maximise the response precision both objectively and also selected with the aid of critical listening assessment. The massively over-specified dual transformer & high capacitance power supply is more typical of that found in high output power amplifiers, however even then it raises the bar having all supply rails decoupled by custom film caps with independent filtering for gain, RIAA and output stages. Immediately apparent as a result of such extreme measures is a vanishingly low noise floor and dynamic agility more typically associated with that of only the finest solid state designs. Its industrial grade circuit board is populated with precision matched & select composition components throughout. Component selection specific to circuit location includes: Texas Instruments 0.1% TX-2575 naked bulk foil, Shinkoh tantalum, Takman & Riken carbon, ATE & Mills non-inductive wirewound resistors. Italian Kendeil HC, ICEL, LCR polystyrene, OSCON SEPC, Mundorf M-LYTIC AG & Silver In Oil capacitors ON Semi Silicon Carbide high current Schottky rectifiers for all individual dc supply rails NewClassD Ultra Wide Band Discrete Voltage Regulators Mundorf Pure Silver/Gold Wiring WBT-0210 Ag Nextgen Pure Silver RCA sockets Purchaser shall inclusively acquire fully tested, matched & documented : Quad Telefunken Diamond Base E88CC Quad Telefunken Diamond Base PCC88 NIB Octet 1979 Voskhod 'Rocket' 6H23P Octet 6922EH The Graaf GM-70 realises qualities to fulfill the most discerning of listeners with an astounding purity of sound and luminousness of timbre. High Gain: 55dB S/N Ratio: 89dB Separation: 63dB Low Gain: 42dB S/N Ratio: 97dB Separation: 73dB Review Comment from Hifi World U.K... "Not cheap, but sonically as sweet as a nut. Open, warm and highly detailed." Graaf GM50B Review.pdf