Melody Valve Hifi Premium 300BIntegrated AmpusedMelody Valve Hifi Premium 300B Integrated AmpMelody Hifi Australia 300B integrated amplifier -- 66 lb. amp with premium transformers and parts throughout. Light use, excellent overall condition. Design includes heavy duty Japanese iron, a 101...2200.00

Melody Valve Hifi Premium 300B Integrated Amp

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Melody Hifi Australia 300B integrated amplifier -- 66 lb. amp with premium transformers and parts throughout. Light use, excellent overall condition.
Design includes heavy duty Japanese iron, a 101D voltage regulator, ceramic tube sockets, 24 step attenuator, manual biasing, and premium footers. This unit has also been upgraded with Mundorf caps and high purity copper wiring by an excellent SoCal tech who worked on many Melody, Jadis, etc. and developed this particular upgrade.
If interested, read the Six Moons review of the similarly built Melody I2A3 integrated. An excerpt:
"The company founder and chief engineer Shi He Wang is a seasoned engineer and audiophile as well as an entrepreneur. He understands the stability and noise issues in the traditional design of tube gear. Mr. Wang overcame the problems by design changes and by using constant current sources, 101D tubes and high performance transformers to reduce operational noise level to nearly inaudible levels. In order to improve the sound quality, audiophile-grade components such as Jensen paper-in-oil capacitors, Japanese-made and treated silicon steel transformer cores, 101D tubes etc are specially selected and designed into the products. This provides sweeter and warmer sound with an airy ambience. You will find that the 6SN7 and 101D tubes are the main tubes used in Melody products. 6SN7s are for preamplification and 101Ds for voltage stabilization to maintain a stable DC supply. It is a different design philosophy to tube gear made by other companies. The cost of the 101D is higher than comparable tubes but it provides better voltage stabilization and better sound."
Functionally the amp is very quiet in operation. It will come with a minimally used tube set -- Full Music 101D, and Melody branded 300Bs and 6SN7s. The selector switch was slightly damaged during shipping. I had it repaired and it works perfectly except that we had to align the numbers starting at number 2, i.e. input 1 is lined up as input 2, and so on. All four of the RCA inputs work fine. Input 5 is balanced -- I am unable to confirm if it works, but if it's needed it could easily be rewired to input 4. No remote.
Cosmetically it looks great. The front right tube cage hole is marred a bit, there's some smudges to the finish on the left side rear, and some of the lettering has worn off. I do not have the tube cage.
Tubes: 300B × 2, 6sn7 × 4, 101d × 1, Output power: 8.0 W + 8.0 W
Frequency Response: 20Hz – 30kHz, Input Impedance: 100KΩ
Input sensitivity 380mV
Size (inches): 17 (W) × 14 (d) × 8 (H) Weight: 66 lbs
Love exploring triode amps and this one betters my other recent 300B trials. Now want to try a 300B push/pull design. Thanks for your interest!

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