Just the job - JOB 225 amplifier
This looks like a really interesting amplifier, I suspect it would sit rather well with a lot of 'Chewer's musical tastes. The JOB 225 is based on a Goldmund circuit in a simple box, and seems to be a subsidiary of the Goldmund itself.
Goldmund have an unhappy episode in their past, where they were publicly slated on the forums for charging approximately £6k for what looked (in the photos) like a lightly modified Pioneer DV600 (£200). I bring this up, because the more sophisticated Goldmund version of the JOB 225 retails at about $17,000, and the JOB sells direct on Amazon for $1,495. This is to their extreme credit if you have limited resources, or possibly not if you are a Goldmund owner! At any rate, as Srajan Ebaen points out in his (glowing) 6 moons review, it may hardly matter, as Goldmund owners are unlikely to talk money with JOB owners.
The JOB 225 is currently unavailable, as it is being reworked for 230V operation. Also, their was a grounding issue with the early amps which was apparently corrected, as detailed in this thread on WBF.
I had plenty of time to read up about JOB during a recent spell at home due to illness. There is a whole lot of amplifier for the money here, and were I not sorted both for the present and with future plans, I'd be saving already.
Goldmund have an unhappy episode in their past, where they were publicly slated on the forums for charging approximately £6k for what looked (in the photos) like a lightly modified Pioneer DV600 (£200). I bring this up, because the more sophisticated Goldmund version of the JOB 225 retails at about $17,000, and the JOB sells direct on Amazon for $1,495. This is to their extreme credit if you have limited resources, or possibly not if you are a Goldmund owner! At any rate, as Srajan Ebaen points out in his (glowing) 6 moons review, it may hardly matter, as Goldmund owners are unlikely to talk money with JOB owners.
The JOB 225 is currently unavailable, as it is being reworked for 230V operation. Also, their was a grounding issue with the early amps which was apparently corrected, as detailed in this thread on WBF.
I had plenty of time to read up about JOB during a recent spell at home due to illness. There is a whole lot of amplifier for the money here, and were I not sorted both for the present and with future plans, I'd be saving already.
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It's on my DIY list to build my own Goldmund clone
It's a pretty left-field choice (which is why I felt sure James would be interested), as for time scales I believe JOB have said "September - best guess". So after September then...
Goldmund have bases in Switzerland as well as USA, so let's hop the import from Suisse is relatively pain free.
Yes, it's a very long thread...
Tempting.
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