This is an early (1995’ish) Kondo made M7. Bought on a drunken whim and It had been butchered by some mad russian. Sent it to Simon who returned it to japanese glory.
It’s now a standard model with 6072a in the preamp and phono stage with original hand made silver caps and shinko resistors.
Managed to find a NOS ‘heart of muse’ cap and some AN Vsx silver cable so Simon restored it back to its original design. He also sorted out the hum (common problem with M7) by tidying everything up and doing a star earth with clean connections. The original TKD attenuator was replaced with the much nice Noble AP25.
Now has 2x Raytheon triple mica 6072A in the line stage (£400 inc VAT etc) and GE 5* in the phono.
Simon also built a step down from 240v to 220v to ensure that nothing is overloaded.
Heard pretty much every M7 on here, some of them several times, both in my system and the various owners’. So I know that I’d really like one.
Thing is, I want remote control, and I already have a top-notch LCR phono.
So tempting, even though it would cause a huge overhaul of my set-up.
