[Mattia]

The E-650 surely is a super fine and trouble free solution! Congrats.


I would not, however, so easily dismiss older gear sound just because "is older", "they improved", etc.
Yes, they improved, but sometimes they went from "perfect" to "more perfect". In other words, honestly, it is *really* difficult if not impossible to tell them apart.

Granted, there are people who evidently can ear 0.5uV noise differences and tell that they are "big".
I think otherwise.


If it is in proper shape (and that is THE big if, you never know how it was used!), a good older unit may perform surprisingly well.

Barsur, here in the thread, did a comparison between some different eras Accuphase preamplifier and they were indistinguishable between each other.

I recently did the same with my (recently restored) C-280V (1990), C-290V (1998) and C-2420 (2012) and found the same as Barsur: basically they are all just perfect to me. And the C-280V (with restoration) and C-290V, together, cost to me way less than C-2420.