Sold Sony TA-4650 Vfet ( baby Vfet)

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For sale, Sony’s baby Vfet the TA-4650 Integrated amplifier . The unit has been freshened up by the previous owner. The killer diodes were replaced to protect the precious and rare Vfet transistors which are no longer produced. Some parts were upgraded with black gates, Riken, nichicon muse, it is clean inside and out and is in good condition. Can be used just as a preamp or just an amp. 35 watts a channel into 8 ohms. Vfets that are transistors that have similar characteristics to the triode tube. im asking $485 plus shipping . I will only ship to the lower 48 states only. The unit will be packed well And double boxed.


Tony


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Nice amp! I had the baby 2650 for years and liked it a lot. I also have a TA-N5550 here that I need to proactively replace the diodes in, so that keeps me from pursuing this very nice piece.
I also have a similarly styled STR-5800 receiver I'm keeping as a spare...

GLWTS
 
Very nice. I wonder how something like this would sound in my system.

You don't happen to be local to Madison, WI do you? Judging by the grass outside I am guessing not. :)
 
You didn’t happen to buy that at the Royal Oak flea market and have it refurbished did you? I saw one there two 1/2 years ago and almost bought it but couldn’t test it. If I was still in SE MI I’d pick this up.
 
JohnVF said:
You didn’t happen to buy that at the Royal Oak flea market and have it refurbished did you? I saw one there two 1/2 years ago and almost bought it but couldn’t test it. If I was still in SE MI I’d pick this up.
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I'm not sure, but I think I got a TAN-5550 from the Allen Park Ford Club show you and the PM stopped by at a few years back. I have yet to plug it in, as the "death diodes" spooked me, but that could be a project for later this week. The older guy I got if from said it was fine, so I took a chance it is. I'll look at it later today.

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Andyman said:
I'm not sure, but I think I got a TAN-5550 from the Allen Park Ford Club show you and the PM stopped by at a few years back. I have yet to plug it in, as the "death diodes" spooked me, but that could be a project for later this week. The older guy I got if from said it was fine, so I took a chance it is. I'll look at it later today.

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Supposed to be really nice. I had one that had been improperly restored and sounded awful- it went to somebody who knew how to deal with it, and it came out better in the end and I think they enjoyed it. The vfets survived whatever my poor unit had been through. Good luck!
 
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