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Found this little receiver on the curb,in perfect working and cosmetic shape. I know basically it's a POS but looks kinda pretty in a simple way and sounds nice. Anybody have info on this model, like the OEM, wattage, etc?
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mrh
It's a POS because everybody says it's a POS...specially the "experts"...isn't it funny that in the end it still "sounds nice"...;)!
I think these were pretty durn common. Nice looking little receiver. I have one, but it's got issues (a li'l curl of smoke arose from one of the power transistors and then the fuse went south).I DO have the R/S catalog with the SA-64 and/or the SA-64B, and will scan the info when I remember. I think the Sa-64 was 16 wpc, and the 64B was 18, but that's only a recollection.
No idea who made 'em. Probably Standard Radio, Hitachi, Sanyo, or someone we've never heard of. Contrary to popular belief, I don't think any of the R/S ss stereo receivers were made by Pioneer or any of the big names. Any physical resemblance of an R/S receiver to a "name brand" counterpart was, I suspect, strictly intentional!
This was NOT true of all of their equipment, as R/S sold a thinly disguised TEAC R to R and some Hitachi cassette decks ca. 1980 with the "Realistic" brand on 'em.
The Allied 395, sold as that after the 1970 Allied buyout by Radio Shack, was clearly a Pioneer product, using those same funny speaker connectors the SX X2X receivers used at the time. I think there were others as well. Hitachi had a lot of the RS contracts as the 70s progressed as well. It gets complicated because RS let receiver contracts one receiver at a time during at least part of the 70s, and who the manufacturer was depended on the power output. That's why the RS receivers of the period bear little family resemblance in any given year. Cosmetics provided some clues to manufacturer. I THINK most of the units from the period with the dual sliding volume controls were Hitachi-made, but a balance control you turned denoted a different manufacturer, perhaps even Pioneer. Both Allied and Radio shack were doing similar contracting on house brand receivers, and RS for a short period of time (A couple years) even tried to keep alive the popular Allied models from pre-merger days. Then they started selling under the Allied Radio Shack (ARS) label, then Realistic, then after the Optimus speakers took off they adopted tht name for electronics too. Its a curious, checkered history, and a marketeer's nightmare because they changed strategies and brand names endlessly. Some of the stuff they contracted like the Allied 395, was quite good, a lot was so-so, and some was marginal. And that was part of the problem. Consumers didn't quite know what to make of it all. I still don't know what to make of it all.One day not too long ago, they decided they wanted something other than a house brand, so they started marketing electronics under the Memorex brand. Then they started marketing speakers that said RCA on them, a brand owned by a giant Chinese electronics firm. Then suddenly RCA speakers disappeared and Sony speakers showed up. It's crazy.
The RCA brand is owned by Thomson Consumer Electronics, a French company owned in part by the French government. Although most products are made in China.
I thought the RCA brand was cast adrift a while back :-(
Yes they do. They also owned the GE name for consumer electronics. I think they dumped that.
The main supplier of receivers for most of the 70's into the early 80's was Foster Electronics (Fostex).
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