Finally found a pair used. Two years in a row, WLM has mightily impressed me at the Munich High End for what must be one of the best values on the audiophile planet, and the Diva is one of the most affordable WOW! speakers I know. Especially with the Control it becomes extremely flexible in addressing room peculiarities. Liedtke Metalldesign Diva stands are almost imperative for this, quoted price includes a pair of those. ser.nr. DI-07071 (l+r)
http://www.wlm-loudspeakers.com/WLMDivaMoniengl.html

Turns the Diva Monitor into a semi-active system: here comes bass again. Technical explanation is under construction on the WLM website, the following is from the 6moons test by Srajan: You don't bypass the passive network inside the single-wired speaker. You precede it with an analog circuit ahead of the amplifier that offers up to 12dB of boost in 0.25dB increments. Roughly speaking, it's an add-on tone control. It counteracts the natural roll-off behavior of the Divas' ported alignments by delaying it. http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/wlm/divamonitor.html

Not related to Audion from the UK. 2x8W SET amp, one of the last handmade by the German manufacturer himself (presently this is only sold as a diy kit). Sporting a couple of 300B and 6922 tubes; separate SPU. Wonderful, addictive sound (beginning to understand the SET aficionados), easily outperforms the Unison S2K that I used to like so much. Swapped against the S2K with surplus payment that was extremely well spent indeed. http://www.audion-by-fischer.de/main.swf

Formerly known as Opus Nr.4, cd ripper and server with 1TB hard disc storage Ser.Nr. 1531368583 http://www.olive.us/products/olive4/overview.html

Mattijs De Vries of Machmat tubes is also the man behind Pink Faun, see http://www.pinkfaun.com/eng/aboutusintro.html
Everything these guys build belongs in the Blatant-Overachiever-For-The-Money league and the DAC3 is a brilliant case in point. The Jadis JD3 sounds rejuvenated and together with the DAC3 easily competes with considerably more expensive combos and players I've heard. The Pink Faun cables are an ideal match. The mod by Triple M (Mattijs et.al. again) substitutes a second coax digital in for the original optical one (btw, there is also a USB only version of this machine). Ser.Nr. DAC33402 http://www.triplemaudioshop.nl/index.php?item=pink-faun-dac3-da-converter&action=article&group_id=10000036&aid=43〈=NL

http://www.pinkfaun.com/eng/prodcabsigspec.html

2 sets of interlinks DAC -[greaterthansign] Diva Control -[greaterthansign] amp
http://www.pinkfaun.com/eng/prodcabsigspec.html

digital interlink
http://www.pinkfaun.com/eng/prodcabsigspec.html

perfect match for the Pink Faun DAC3
http://www.pinkfaun.com/eng/prodcabpowspec.html

Superb power cord that comes customary with the AMR CD-77

Great design, great value, they just keep getting resurrected in one system or the other. http://www.audioplan.eu/03e_products/03e_prod3_sv/03e_sv_vkcord/03e_sv_vkpowercord_tech.html

Substituted these for the original Harmonix Gold. Expensive but no regrets, everything Richard Foster wrote in HiFi+ came true. http://www.euroaudioteam.com/300b.php

Tesla NOS tubes - not JJ! Special series with gold grid and gold pins (price quoted for matched pair). http://www.jacmusic.com/NOS/ECC88.htm On the difference between Tesla and JJ, read here: http://www.jacmusic.com/tesla/tesla-jj.html

Very effective teflon + titanium anti-resonance and microphony reducing tube rings
http://www.tuberings.com/

two of Dan Sherbrook's massive brass discs worked wonders to put the Pink Faun DAC3 at ease; highly effective affordable tweak, highly recommended manufacturer! http://vermontaudio.com/index.html

Siberian genuine instrument wood http://www.blackforestaudio.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=54

proven quality string suspension concept absorber bases http://www.hifi-ssc.de/english_web/index.html

sand filled speaker stands http://liedtke-metalldesign.de/

Well established quality, although I do like to combine those somewhat flimsy looking boards with other resonance tweaks. http://www.lovanusa.com/index.php?cPath=21_10&osCsid=d2f91ee85d4a42e459788b7bab28ba6e

Also known as the "Rack of Shame". I had it coming, and yes you are so right, it serves me right to suffer. One should never, ever buy bad copies of anything. Why then, might one ask, did I do this dumb thing? I really just wanted something robust but relatively light, flexible and easy to rearrange quickly, so what could be better than the Spider? Something cheaper that looks like the Spider, or so I thought. To start with: after seven weeks and a number of inquiries that no one ever bothered to reply to in any way, I had to trigger a dispute through PayPal to eventually receive my goods. Did I really say "GOODs" just now? LOL! I've never seen such badly machined metal (whatever it is). The wood has the looks and feel of glue strengthened leftovers. I somehow managed to apply the screws (difficult to find the right angle), the protective caps however were just impossible to fit. OK, I didn't expect for a moment the anti-resonance elements to be any good, but I have a feeling they did manage to find something that actually amplifies resonance. LUCKILY, I had some spare genuine resonance dampers and the SSC bases, so the gear is well positioned after all. To be fair, at least the Thing is not going to crash any moment, so it will do for now Oh well, lesson learned.