Item: Threshold S200
Location: Nth Balwyn VIC
Price: $1200
Item Condition: Excellent
Reason for selling: Unused
Payment Method: Cash, DD, Paypal
Time to sell my beloved little S200 from the early 90s, one of the last true Nelson Pass models before he left Threshold and started Pass Labs. These Stasis amps were the culmination of 10-15 years of Pass's thoughts and efforts on how to get Class A magic out of transistor amps with Class AB power, by using variable/sliding bias schemes. And this S200 is the later and best version with the rock solid optical bias circuitry.
Pass himself is super proud of the S200. Basically it sounds like a Class A amp and also has some serious drive for what's a fairly small amp—over the years I've used it to drive some pretty demanding speakers like Thiels etc and it's always shone. Specs read 2x100W into 8Ω and 2x200W into 4Ω and supposedly owners have bench tested significantly bigger numbers.
It's a rare 240V Aussie delivery.
It's in nice shape although a good candidate for a routine service (I don't believe it's ever seen a tech's bench) and possibly a recap ('cos it's about 25 years old). Also the transformer hums, at least on my AC lines. (On that, I've heard Threshold fans like to upsize the power trafo in these to good effect. The stock one's surprisingly small.)
I think I have some paperwork, schematics etc lying around for it.
Happy to ship it, very safely packed.
