VAIC REFERENCE 62B MONOBLOCKS

REVIEW with pictures:

In Stereo times

These we took back from an official VAIC Dealer, who never sold them. I bought them from this dealer personally after the VAIC brand was obsoleted. They were only used for demo purposes, in a special test room. They have almost no hours on them, they are shiny like new, and were never transported to HiFi shows, or anything like this. I picked them up myself by car, so they were not even yet shipped by carrier even once. The original wooden shipment crates are unused.

I scanned this from the official Catalog, that is with the amplifiers.
You'll receive these 62B monoblocks with a set of new tubes, of your choice.

So call it NOS amplifiers. Can be shipped wordlwide quickly. We just need to give those a check up. Will be sold by JAC Music, with all NEW tubes, and full guarantee on everything.

These are the reference models.. and hey... that's what they are. If you look inside, it makes your heart beat faster. All triode amplifiers, no feedback. Gold plated hardware, even the switch at the back for the bias control is gold plated. It has symmetrical and unsymmetrical inputs, you can hand-adjust the bias yourself, with a precision build-in digital reading. After adjustment, the digital meters can be switched off, if you don't like the red- letters of it, in the dark. So you'll see the tube glow only. The amps has tube rectification, 6SN7 pre.amp tube, and a beautiful directly heated driver tube AV8B, and two 1605 or 520B output tubes in Parallel Single Enden for each monoblock. The deck and transformers are Rhodium plated. (Rhodium looks like Chrome, but doesn't have that cheap "mirror" effect. Rhodium has a more blue-grey color) Wooden side panels are thick piano laquered, in black.

Note, that this amp allows you to do a tube change yourself, check the status of End Tubes tubes yourself, and re-adjust them yourself. You don't need to ship it to a dealer for that. It may not seem important now, but it will be after some years, and it's a MAJOR advantage of this amplifier over the lower class VAIC models.

This is the BEST and largest VAIC amplifier EVER MADE. There has never been a larger or a better one.

For this price you receive two Monoblocks

Specifications:

Parallel Single-Ended monoblocks
All tube amplifier, with 5U4G tube rectification
Analog regulated "pre-heating" for the 520B tubes, with relay control
Output Power: 50 watts per channel (100 watts peak) with EML 520B Tubes
Output Power: 60 watts per channel (200 watts peak) with EML 1605 Tubes
Frequency Response: +/- 0 dB 7 Hz-35 kHz; +/- 2 dB 5 Hz-100 kHz
Two Outputs: 4 or 8 ohms
Can be adjusted for almost any output tube. Please inquire if you have questions
All tube replacements, control and adjustment can be done by end user. Needs no tools, meter is build in amplifier.
Input impedance: 55 kilohms
Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 98 dB
Input Connectors: 1× RCA, 1× XLR

Weight 55kgs, for one monoblock
Dimensions (cm): 37.5×60×27

 

Price 9500€ (MwSt. Differenzbesteuert nach $25a). Iincluding all NEW tubes, which includes two PAIRS (4pcs) of EML 1605 tubes, a NEW macthed pair of 8B drivers, and an NOS pair 6SN7.

This is about half of the price of a new set, which at that time did not include the mighty 1605 tubes. Now, it is included.

VAIC Amplifiers are not made any more

What we offer:

  • Tube exchange
  • Repair / Tuning / Hum canceling
  • Build in phono stage. We recommend the Lehmann Module.
  • Upgrade to larger size Emission Labs tubes
  • We charge 50 Euro per hour, for all work we need to do. For a tube exchange + adjustment, it takes maximum one hour.

Attention: We offer repair and service, but post transportation is only accepted when you have the original wooden containers with it.

What we do not offer

  • Tubes you can borrow, so you can try out the sound before you buy them.
  • Repairs that you can wait for. We must do this work in between, and may need to order small replacement parts. Besides the amplifiers need to run in one day after a tube exchange
  • Circuit diagrams we have, but we don't hand those out.
VAIC Amplifiers werden nicht mehr gebaut

Was wir bieten:

  • Röhren Wechsel
  • Reparatur / Tuning / Brummfrei machen
  • Einbau Phono Stufe. Wir empfehlen das Lehmann Modul. 
  • Upgrade auf größere Röhren von Emission Labs.
  • Wir berechnen 50€pro Stunde für die Arbeit. Einen Röhrenwechsel inkl. Justage kostet maximal eine Stunde.

Achtung: Versand kan. Diese extrem schwere Geräte können nur postsicher verpackt werden, wenn der Original Holzcontainer noch dabei ist.

Was wir nicht bieten:

  • Röhren zum ausleihen, damit Sie den Klang ausprobieren können bevor Sie sich zum Kauf entscheiden.
  • Reparaturen worauf Sie warten können. Wir machen diese Arbeiten zwischendurch, mann muss Kleinteile bestellen, etc, und wir lassen die Verstärker einen Tag probelaufen nach einem Röhrenwechsel.
  • Wir haben die Schaltbilder, aber wir geben die nicht raus.