Wadia prices and info please...

I'm in Korea at the moment, and have found some potentially interesting looking second hand kit. Specifically, there appears to be a reasonable selection of second hand kit.
Would anyone care to comment on the prices of the following aswell as which were good/bad ones that I should look for or avoid:

Wadia:
8 - 2k (UK sterling)
23 - 600 (UK sterling)
6 - 1300 (UK sterling)
3200 - 600 (UK sterling)

The 3200 looks pretty ancient, but I don't know about the 23, which looks pretty cheap.

Thoughts?

 

Mike, there are a bit dear avoid the 23(dac it was the first lesser effort and to be fair is average at best) like the pleague, 6 is ok (player with vol control), but you can get them here for that/less.
8 is just a transport only, never heard a 3200 (one of the 1989 models').
The 21 is a good musical player, if you can find one then a Wadia 16 is cracking, 21 around £1100-£1500, Wadia 16 tuff one, here some Joker Dealer wants £3500 but still around the £1800-£2500, which puts you in 850 territory, for me the 16 dumps the 850, but it's a personal thing (850 uses the plastic tray and cheaper VRDS mech).
Mike a Wadia 830 (player) maybe worth a look, around the £1200-£1500. hope this helps. WM

 

Tone,

Thanks for that, I knew you'd reply, nice one.

I had a scan around Central Audio and the Emporium, the prices over here really don't look that competitive, thought I would be worth a second opinion on.

Ah well, back to Ebay...

 

WM Wrote:

850 uses the plastic tray and cheaper VRDS mech

I'm pretty sure that this is what's in the Teac VRDS-T1 as well.

Cheers

 

I do believe that Timpy is having deep seated trumatic wrenchings, due to the 825 from being sold under him, remeber be gentle with him, he a sensitive soul WM

 

I believe you're correct - having read something similar on AudioAsylum recently when looking for info on the T1. It would appear that the VRDS-10 and VRDS-25 CDPs both use the "better" cast iron VRDS mech...perhaps I should have gone for a VRDS-10 instead of the T1 There are certainly more of them around but none at the price I paid for my T1

Flicking through HiFi World the Teac T1 transport is also listed at the back in the "Classics" section as one of only 3 transports they regard as classics - the other two being the Teac P0 (which apparently still goes for $8K second hand - if you can find one) and the,ahem, Kenwood 6010 ???

I'm sure garyi wouldn't approve of 3 "jap crap" transports being the only ones regarded as classics

Michael.

 

Calm down boys, it still sound pretty good the wadia ones except 850/301/830/ use either the Pioneer upside down mech or the pastic version, I have a plastic tray , but inside it's all metal, the P0 I've never seen, the P30 (like Merlin has) is still fecthing strong money around the £1300 mark, cuz they are good. WM

 

Here is pretty much the only picture and reference on the net I can find of the P0 (at least, the only one not in Japanese):



Comes from this page (about half way down). Now that I've looked at the link for the image (NVX-Krell-CD.jpg) I'm not even sure it is a P0

Michael.

 

Joel is the man for this assignment Captain , I'm pretty Sure John Franks at Chord has one but the are more difficult to find than a 825 Rover for Timpy

 

Plastic or not, it is rather good now

And getting better. Given enough time, a Wadia will be unnecessary .

825 Diesel trauma indeed . Now we're talking 820 Turbo :MILD:

Cheers

 

OK - found another reference and pic and yes, that IS a P0. Here's the other reference pic:



and link: http://aca.gr/pop_jyk.htm

It's the ACA.gr page for Jean-Yves Kerbrat and his mega system in Paris :yikes:

Michael.

 

Spot how many Ps audio mains reconstructors about oh dear thats the dynamic's out the window

 

And apparently he's replaced the P0 with a Burmester transport now

Michael.

 

Oh and please note that Jean-Yves has switched to Shunyata King Cobra mains leads, and all the fancy tube amps are replaced with Tact S2150's connected to an RCS2.2X

In fact Jean Yves is doing some mods to the S2150, replacing a lot of the components with Black Gate etc, reclocking and fitting a word clock input.

Still, only the best for the discerning Mnsr Kerbrat A man after my own heart

 

What was that about dynamics going out the window?



hehehe

 

As far as I can tell from my correspondence with Jean Yves, the only things that went out the window were distortion, NOS containers, audible noise floors and slow startup procedures

Left behind was pure unsullied sound that Jimmy would have loved had he lived long enough to take advantage of 21st Century technology

 

I opened up my T1 last night just to take a quick look - WOW! these things really are built like a tank

No less than 14 screws just holding the top cover on! And when you've got that off, you still have to remove a secondary (and not that flimsy) metal sheet cover held down by another 5 screws. Acres of metal sheilding and bracing everywhere. Very impressed. Got my first close up look at a VRDS mech aswell and wasn't disappointed

All packed up again and on the "NHS waiting list", operation scheduled for September

Michael.

 

Here's an interesting page about the VRDS mech:

http://www.teac.co.jp/av/policy/tech.html

...even if you can't read Japanese. Doesn't mention every model though but you can see the P0 there

Michael.