It's now official: Headroom is holding *the* last pair of on-sale K-1000s for me. It's an open box set for $300.00 (all puns intended) -- in new condition, with all materials and full warranty (someone bought them last week and didn't realize they'd need extra amplification). Will be having them sent in roughly a week 1/2. I suppose it was an offer I couldn't, em, refuse.
Now all I have to do is decide which amp to buy -- the Parasound HCA-1000A 125W, nOrh SE 9 or something else. I have to think about other concerns than audiophile ones, though -- it has to be a setup for listening to reference mixes with my Tannoys and, once I get it configured, 5.1 speaker system, now that I can do surround sound mixes in ProTools and Digital Performer.
About the Cardas (Cord-wuss? Cutlass? Cogdash?) cable people keep mentioning -- does it terminate in speaker wires like the K1000's standard cable?
I suck at DIY, by the way. I grew up having roadies, techs and engineers do everything for me. Spoiled rotten and it's now my loss, because I can't do anything but play and compose (screw you, Richard D. James and Matt Black): "O where are the manservants, Lord Rumsfjordnads? I'm having such ever so much trouble rerouting my patch bay."