VAC Signature 200iQ : Reference Tube Amplifier - Trades Considered

Up for sale is a VAC Signature 200 iQ tube amp in excellent condition. The 200iq is one of the best tube amps on the planet and VAC gear is revered in the audiophile community. Don't take my word for it though:


"If you’re in the market for a powerful tubed stereo amplifier, and if you appreciate precision in sound, great looks, and the last word in tube reliability and performance, you must audition the Valve Amplification Company’s Signature 200iQ. I guarantee that there will be no hilarity, no disastrous crescendos of smashed plates or capricious inconstancies of bias settings, no anxieties or mournful, sad-sack grimaces of defeat regarding the stability of this very serious piece of electronics. Rather than your having to be an acrobat of constant readjustments and maintenance to preserve your precious output tubes, the 200iQ comes with the acrobat preinstalled -- VAC’s iQ system automatically takes care of all that for you, taming the electronic gremlins of bias drift and signal wobble, to present you with only pure sound, a rock-steady current to your speakers, and a thoroughly enjoyable listening experience.
Once heard, purity can never be unheard. VAC’s new Signature 200iQ presents a clarified purity with a sensuous ease I have decided I cannot do without. Despite all my loyalties to the Phi 200 for its gifts of great sound over the last six years, and despite its charming retro look and the wondrous, glowing allure of its front-mounted tubes, I have to make a change. The Signature 200iQ is my new reference stereo power amplifier."

- SoundStage Ultra



This unit is a one-owner piece and has been minimally used (probably less than 200 hours), so tube hours should be excellent! Monoblock 200iq's were purchased and, as it turns out, one stereo amp is all that was needed.

MSRP is $16,000 (up from $14000 previously)

Asking $8499.

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Additional details about this model can be found at the VAC product page:

http://www.vac-amps.com/productPages/Signature200.html