Luxman K-04 Is this a good deck?

[gamve]

Anyone have experience with this model? The specs look really good, I was wondering if this carries over to the sonics

[braxus]

The K-04 is close in terms of quality to the K-05. The K-05 is Luxman's best deck.

[stuwee]

A quick google shows lot's of *Hi5*'s I'm not familar with it. I'd like to though. I didn't see any pics though, does anyone have one to post?

[niklasthedolphin]

I believe that 04 has manual calibration of bias and rec level.

Depending on who's evaluating that can be an advantage or disadvantage.

I find manual calibration an advantage and through praxis experience, I find that it's possible to squeeze out more precision in the calibration with manual calibration.

Calibration is not the only thing at stake when comparing two decks, so I couldn't say which is best of the 04 and the 05.

But if manual/automatic calibration is the only difference between the two decks, I would pick the 04.

"dolph"

[gamve]

I was watching this deck on Aust Ebay and it went for $790.00
I hope the winner knew what they were buying I paid less for my
Aiwa XK-S9000

[braxus]

... I paid less for my Aiwa XK-S9000

Your got your 9000 at a fair price then. I probably am the one who ever paid the most for this deck at $1300. With exchange, duty, parts and repair its currently up to $2000. And with more repairs I expect it to go to $3000 by the end of it all.

By the way- how do you like your 9000?

[Analogtape]

Isnt the Alpine AL85 same as k04?

[Q-Authority]

Isnt the Alpine AL85 same as k04?

Except for a few small changes, yes.