Hi All:

My Taboo was my first piece of Decware gear, and is still in my avatar. Because I have a Taboo MkIII on the way, I would like to sell the Taboo. I would prefer to sell it to someone:

1. New to good audio;
2. A service member or veteran;
3. Someone for whom retail price or normal used price is a burden or bit of a stretch.

Now, I am not the "Classifieds Police." If someone tells me they meet these criteria, i am inclined to accept them at their word. If someone I know well from this forum [Lon, Jim, Ron] vouches for someone, then all the better. If anyone here who has been registered for more than three months knows of someone to suggest or to act as a buyer for, that works for me, too. I would just like to see this wonderful amp go to a good home and help someone get started on the quality audio path.

In any case, this is a 2011 Taboo MkII with a cherry base, VCAPS, standard, non-stepped attenuator with black round knob [I may have a chicken beak I can throw in], and SE headphone jack. As a bonus, I will include a set of Decware ICs, and a couple of extra tubes for each socket.

Price is $475 + $20 shipping in CONUS. PayPal preferred.

Thanks much Greg. Appreciate the good words, and props on your order. You will love the Torii.

More importantly, from a grateful citizen, thank you for your service.

This is a great opportunity for somebody to enter a wonderful hi-fi world of magic!

it is a very charitable thing that you are doing, I think Decwares gear are works of art, and anyone would be lucky to be introduced to higher audio, my gear until recently has been portable rigs, I have the CLAS and a HP-P1, which I run with th iPod Classic 7th gen, and along with ALOs MKII the 500s sound very nice, but I would love to hear how a great tube amp could make them sing! music is therapy to me, so it is all very important to me, a great way to relax after work, but I am looking to expand my audio experience, as I know that there is another level to take it all to, anyways, its all good all of the time, I just know it can be better since I found Decware!

thanks for the feedback, that makes me happy I am in the right area, I was thinking about the CSP2+, but I am settling on the TABOO, I even love the name, something wonderful and secret, sshhh I'm busy listening! lol,

coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys, as I am listening to Arlo Guthrie on the 500s, wow I am liking it out of my portable rig, I am dying to be hearing it thru the TABOO sometime, I can only imagine, as now it is only thru the CLAS>ALOs MKII,

VERY interested. Hmmm... gotta  talk to my wife tonight. Thanks for offering us such a wonderful deal!

Ron

While my second Torii was in the shop recently, I used the Taboo to drive my back channel speakers. Did quite well. Of course, that was driving ERRs.

Just as an FYI to anyone who be interested in this amp, I seem to have lost power in the signal tube socket. I haven't had a chance to diagnose yet, but this has caused me to re-think how I share this amp with its next owner. So, if my diagnostics confirm, and Steve agrees, the amp needs to be serviced, I will send it back in, and then I will still sell it under the terms spec'ed in this thread [with possible shipping to new owner if we find one]. In the alternative, for anyone who is so inclined, I will gift the amp as is [still need you to pay shipping], and let the new owner decide how to get the problem rectified [so to speak]. This is not my way of dumping off the amp; I suspect this is an easy fix, and as I said, I haven't even gotten to the diagnostics. But, given the uncertainty of my schedule, if someone is impatient enough to "have at it, as is," then I am game.

Hey Ron, I will get it figured out, but you're right, it still stinks. This is a sweet amp. Right now, I am in discussion with a member of the forum who has stepped forward and expressed an interest in what would be his first piece of Decware.

Whatever became became of this?