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As always, when you buy on the grey market, you know the risks and what you are in for. Now Accuphase are built like tanks but the risk is always there. The only way to get it repaired is to send it back to Accuphase Japan (and paying the cost of shipping both ways). When you resale, you make the new buyer benefit from the lower price you had. Only you know if it's worth it or not. I'd do it on items like DAC or CDP maybe preamp but I wouldn't buy an amp. |
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That's cool. I would do the same as a trial. I agree. Yeah, if Accuphase will repair it. Do you know for sure that they will when they find out you bypassed the distributor. That's true. Because of PriceJapan and Audio Cubes and buying in Japan in person, what has happened this that the used price of 120V Accuphase goes way down. I hate to say this, but Accuphase doesn't have the greatest resale value here in the US (and suspect Canada as well.) Yeah, that makes sense. There's nothing really I can do to get around this distributor, I'm trying to save up, but then something always comes up. I'm having possible car trouble at the moment, and my electric bills are rather high from living in the desert and running central air. And I have to eat, I'm not going to eat cheap ramen and macaroni and cheese for months and months. So, things like that preclude me from buying Accuphase at this time. I could go with a cheaper product, like McIntosh, but the sound quality isn't my cup of tea.It's great stuff though. and build quality is definitely very good. Last edited by Dave_72; 08-28-2015 at 10:44 PM. |
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I checked out the Audio Union shop in Ochanimizu
I bought some speakers and isolators Alot of fun
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I have the old ones but these have the new ribbon tweeters I tried out a bunch of speakers when I was there and I still like these ones The Accuphase E-470 was tempting and they had the FirstWatt Sit which was my first time to hear But alas, I was with my fiance and couldnt spend as much time as I wanted
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