[German Expat in Vietnam]

Definitely Isabellae.
Musicteck does not send them to Russia?

Yes is also my tipp. Isabellae is very great. One of my Favorite pairing

 

[vanez1985]

Have you tried hifigo? I have bought them there and I have not paid customs or duties and for less than $ 500 at home.
https://hifigo.com/products/oriolus-isabellae

I checked Hifigo, and it's ~$680 delivery& duties paid with 4-10 weeks delivery time, sounds not so great. That was the reason to take a look on used RX10 at $400 as these are more than 1.5 times cheaper with 2 days delivery

 

[German Expat in Vietnam]

I checked Hifigo, and it's ~$680 delivery& duties paid with 4-10 weeks delivery time, sounds not so great. That was the reason to take a look on used RX10 at $400 as these are more than 1.5 times cheaper with 2 days delivery

Music Teck sells it for 600 US. Write Andrew for the best price. I got my Mest MKII with free shipping. Then you are sure when you take Isas that is works very great together.

 

[vanez1985]

Music Teck sells it for 600 US. Write Andrew for the best price. I got my Mest MKII with free shipping. Then you are sure when you take Isas that is works very great together.

I already discussed possible shipping with Andrew last time I bought W2 from him: they do not ship to Russia at all so I had to find someone coming from US to Moscow that time to avoid hefty broker and customs charges.

 

[ThomasHK]

Amp12 arrived. Any risk in hot swapping different amp modules or should I power on/off every time?

 

[Ichos]

Amp12 arrived. Any risk in hot swapping different amp modules or should I power on/off every time?

You should always power off.

 

[ExpatinJapan]

Amp12 arrived. Any risk in hot swapping different amp modules or should I power on/off every time?

You should always power off.

Agreed

Always power off before changing for safety


But there are some idiots… ‘cough’…me … ‘cough’…who have done it for A/B purposes without any problems.


But yeah. At your own risk

 

[ThomasHK]

Yeah, powering off basically makes ABing impossible.

 

[Ichos]

Yeah, powering off basically makes ABing impossible.

Yes but I wouldn't risk a sudden discharge to fry everything inside the amp.

 

[RIGATIO]

Yeah, powering off basically makes ABing impossible.

You will hear the difference, it's not small, at least for me.

 

[vanez1985]

I checked Hifigo, and it's ~$680 delivery& duties paid with 4-10 weeks delivery time, sounds not so great. That was the reason to take a look on used RX10 at $400 as these are more than 1.5 times cheaper with 2 days delivery

It is also interesting that RX10 FR chart looks quite similar to IT07 which is also recommended here many times, latter one being even bassier and RX10 being somewhere in between IT07 and Isabellae for subbass and treble peaks while pretty much the same for mids on Crinacle FR charts: https://crinacle.com/graphs/iems/graphtool/?share=IEF_Neutral_Target,RX10,IT07
Unfortunately there isn't much information on time domain /PRaT differences which are much more subjective though

 

[German Expat in Vietnam]

It is also interesting that RX10 FR chart looks quite similar to IT07 which is also recommended here many times, latter one being even bassier and RX10 being somewhere in between IT07 and Isabellae for subbass and treble peaks while pretty much the same for mids on Crinacle FR charts: https://crinacle.com/graphs/iems/graphtool/?share=IEF_Neutral_Target,RX10,IT07
Unfortunately there isn't much information on time domain /PRaT differences which are much more subjective though

Buy the IT 07. Works fantastic with DX 300

 

[voja]

Yeah, powering off basically makes ABing impossible.

I managed to do it. Takes me less than a minute to swap them out. I still have my esrly impressions of AB testing between AMP11 MK1 and AMP12. I am yet to do a detailed comparison and post it

 

[DAPpower]

Thanks to the mod job done by Whitigir, I'm set to recieve my AMP12W today, will update on my own impressions on how it sounds afterwards.....

 

[RIGATIO]

Thanks to the mod job done by Whitigir, I'm set to recieve my AMP12W today, will update on my own impressions on how it sounds afterwards.....

excited!