Well.

My YaQin MC-10K came today.

So did I.

I've just got it connected up to the CD player and it's "settling in"
now.

It's MUCH bigger than the Ebay pic led me to believe. Lovely finish
and general layout.

Total of 11 valves including 2 like "bargraph" ones which I _ASSUME_
are there to show me the bias on the o/p valves or something. When the
two bars "meet in the middle" I assume it's coming out of class A, but
that is a total guess. Quiescently (music silent), the bars at top and
bottom are still "half length", i.e. not short or zero length. It must be
some kind of bias indicator to show when it's leaving class A. Nice to have,
actually.

Anyway the amp is ****ing gorgeous to LOOK at.

I got stung for 27.64 of customs charge on delivery, which brought the total
cost to 250 (Ebay final price) + 80 "shipping" (hmmm..) + 27.64 = 357.64.

Don't care what anyone says, it's a HELL of a lot of amp for 350 quid.
Claims 50W into 6 ohms, so about 40W into 8 ohms I guess.


I'll comment on the sound versus the Cyrus II later.


Martin - very happy!
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M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk