Gryphon Mephisto

Pierre, I think they are just moving the gear without making any deals. Your better off buying from a reputable dealer. That Pandora/Legato looks like it was sold. Sometimes its better to pay a little more to protect your investment.

maxwave….Think about it, why would a dealer consider in doing so when he is trying to get rid of his inventory? The board by itself will be impossible to sell :-) BTW, you missed a pretty good deal even if you had no use for MM/MC board. Move on!

@lalitk 

I have  Soulution INT 330  with a phono board that I have never used. I was lately looking at Audionet Humboldt . But the only demo or used one , are in Europe ( 240v)
I communicated with Dave at PI Audio ( I own their Uber Buss ) 
about a step up tranformer. He told me not to use this : sound degradation.   Dave is a great guy. I also communicated with Bill Parish of GTT Audio.
The Pandora with two Essence mono  blocks was in short list.
I think they would have paired well with my Audiovector R6 Arreté
and my LuminX1
I will move on !

Reading threads like this shows me, yet again, just how vast the range of people are that are involved in higher end audio.  Ten thousand dollars for an audio system is like buying an 8 year old Miata and saying you are a sports car enthusiast.  Spending $50,000 and more just for an amp, and then maybe the same on a pre, and then God knows how much on speakers and all the other very high end equipment some of you own — Wow!  I will never be at that level, never hear what it sounds like, and probably never even see it except in photos.  

I’m not eaten up with envy — just realizing that I don’t have any knowledge or experience compared to many of you . . likely never will. I don’t post much but read a lot of the threads, trying to understand what some are referring to.  I think a lot of people that begin to consider higher-end equipment start with an expectation of spending what for them is “a lot of money”, only to realize later that 2 or 3 times that amount is just barely scratching the surface.  It’s like seeing the tip-top of an iceberg and thinking that is it, and then finding out that a gigantic mass lies below the water line.  It keeps amazing me what some people do. 

bob540,
Most of us won't experience that level of performance, but remember that a pretty good system like the type that many of us have is 80% of what those super systems are, and we all eventually benefit from the technologies in those products.