Thoughts on vintage Accuphase
@ arafiq Many moons ago I owned both the C200 and the P300. Not my cup of tea. Don’t forget that those are close to 50 years old. I think you are better off spending your greenbacks on something brand new! BTW, I own those Harbeths! |
I owned an E202 and T101 for 35 plus years. Still have the T101, Great Tuner but doesn't get a lot of use these days. Never had any problems with the E202. While it was an integrated amp, you could also use it either as an amp only or pre-amp only. Paired with double Advents, then Ohms and finally Polk RTA12's. Can't speak to the equipment you are looking at but I never had any issues with mine over all those years. Was pleased with the sound and found that changing the cabling had the biggest impact. |
I've been perusing local ads for vintage equipment, but my god, either the sellers are deluded or there really is a market where people are willing to pay more money for a 30 years-old unit compared to an equivalent new (or new'ish) one. I'm not trying to suggest that vintage does not measure up, but they have to perform significantly better to warrant such high asking prices. I'm pretty much done considering vintage :( |
We serviced out a C-200 several weeks ago. It is extremely well built and the design is top notch. Any electronics this old though needs all the filter capacitors replaced in the power supplies. But seriously there are many better sounding preamps. While this preamp was quiet, it was only capable of MM cartridges. The tone controls employed switches so set to flat it was truly flat. But it has a bright character that is de rigor for solid state preamps in the 70s and 80s. I think you could do better with a Dynaco PAS-3, properly refurbished. I could entertain getting something like this for the novelty, but not more than maybe $200 and certainly not for my main system. |
