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Someone in here has to know somebody....
Was wanting to know if anyone has a restored amp or knows someone with an amp that SAM KIM of Sam's Audio Labs has worked on? I am debating whether to send in my tube to him for a nutso resto. I would consider it an investment for down the road that could only appreciate over time. Apparently Sam:
"Wanting to know more, I studied the circuitry of all the world's best audio systems, collecting over 500 famous schematic diagrams. Soon, I could draw them all out from memory.
Sam has memorized 5,000 circuits from audio to x-ray technologies."
also from Sterophile review :
"I place Sam Kim in the company of the Audio Gods: Hiroyasu Kondo of Audio Note and Nobu Shishido of Wavac (both of whom are no longer with us), and Noriyasu Komuro of Komuro Audio Labs. ( anyone familiar with them ???? beyond a websearch I mean... )
Sam Kim is a master audio artist who has memorized more than 500 schematics. One of 20 men selected in the 1960s by the Korean Government for training in PhD-level electronics engineering, he was the top engineer in the Korean Radio Regulation Department of the Ministry of Communication."
I am not selling this guy but really want to know of anyone who knows of him, if I am to $ave for this. Apparently he goes through the ENTIRE thing tweaking, testing, upgrading and de/resoldering the whole deal part by part. His reference amp that blew folks away just happens to be the same model I own, which is what peaked my curiosity. AA-151.
Any information appreciated. It would take me a while to save the dough anyhow.
Thanks.
This would mean i would have to grab some high end Stax or similar, which suits me just perfectly fine.
time to look into the REMO WILLIAMS brown rice diet.
Was wanting to know if anyone has a restored amp or knows someone with an amp that SAM KIM of Sam's Audio Labs has worked on? I am debating whether to send in my tube to him for a nutso resto. I would consider it an investment for down the road that could only appreciate over time. Apparently Sam:
"Wanting to know more, I studied the circuitry of all the world's best audio systems, collecting over 500 famous schematic diagrams. Soon, I could draw them all out from memory.
Sam has memorized 5,000 circuits from audio to x-ray technologies."
also from Sterophile review :
"I place Sam Kim in the company of the Audio Gods: Hiroyasu Kondo of Audio Note and Nobu Shishido of Wavac (both of whom are no longer with us), and Noriyasu Komuro of Komuro Audio Labs. ( anyone familiar with them ???? beyond a websearch I mean... )
Sam Kim is a master audio artist who has memorized more than 500 schematics. One of 20 men selected in the 1960s by the Korean Government for training in PhD-level electronics engineering, he was the top engineer in the Korean Radio Regulation Department of the Ministry of Communication."
I am not selling this guy but really want to know of anyone who knows of him, if I am to $ave for this. Apparently he goes through the ENTIRE thing tweaking, testing, upgrading and de/resoldering the whole deal part by part. His reference amp that blew folks away just happens to be the same model I own, which is what peaked my curiosity. AA-151.
Any information appreciated. It would take me a while to save the dough anyhow.
Thanks.
This would mean i would have to grab some high end Stax or similar, which suits me just perfectly fine.
time to look into the REMO WILLIAMS brown rice diet.
