No-one talks about Rowlands anymore


It's Pass all over the place. Is Rowland going down big time or terribly and expensively up?
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And from what I understand, Pascal get them form  China, and mod them, and then Rowland buy them.
http://imgp1.en.makepolo.net/o/956/645/3ec6c7e3908d642a79ee2cf1608c5072.jpg
And when they were advertised on Alibaba, these modules sold for $100 each for lots of 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZCxCg-QWDQ

Cheers George
This thread made me chuckle.
ive had guido’s old 7m’s for how long? Like 8yrs now I think.
they still do great work for me. Maybe those 535s that no one talked about will finally replace them. Then again, I might just run the, till they die.

Hello Jimmy, those M7 golden beauties might outlast  usthe both of ... Not bad at all for amps that were manufactured somewhere in the late 1980s.... by a company that "no one talks about any more". The only issue they ever had during the wonderful long years that they were in my possession since 1997 until you picked them up well over 10 years later were some output transistors that required a touch of resoldering... The 5-minutes Fix was applied by a good friend of mine at my place, under phone guidance by Jeff Rowland himself.


Now about the Rowland M535 bridgeable.... I have a pair in my system right now breaking in... Preparing a writeup for Audiogon.... These critters are magical... They remind me so much of my M925 monos... May be some 80% of the M925's authority, with a transparency and resulution that is utterly enchanting, particularly when one considers that a bridged pair lists a smidjin below $12K. I'll test M535 in stereo mode once I have completed evaluation in bridged mode.


Saluti, G.