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In Reply to: RE: Nice. I recently got 2 old school Realistic receivers. STA-120 and STA-235 posted by 2chJunkie on March 23, 2015 at 16:41:19
That STA-235 was actually a very popular receiver. I think Pioneer was the actual manufacturer. It had decent power and a good tuner. It worked well in a living room, bedroom, or dorm room (where I saw a few). It has both sonic an nostalgic merit.
Dave
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Thats good to hear. It sure looks nice and on the inside appears to have been well made.
I know RS used Pioneer as an OEM manufacturer for quite some time. Not that they didnt use others. But yes for some time ALLOT of RS's receivers sure looked like Pioneer offspring!
I recently read on another site, in reference to the many reasons for RS demise... That RS was known for screwing over their OEM manufacturers efforts. They would buy products no doubt designed and built by whomever. Then pass the design off to a lower bidder. Clearly I cant attest to any of this first hand. But it makes sense IMO.
Really harkens to todays China knock off market many know and love LOL... Can you say alibaba ;) Really gotta wonder how much gets watered down in the receive and duplicate world. No question a good deal. Theres a reason its cheaper in todays competitive world!
Thanks for the input!
I bought a Radio Shack Auvio HD tuner when they were clearing them out for $30. It does have a plastic face, but I installed the rack-mount ends that came with it and it looks very cool in my rack of vintage high end gear. It actually works very well. It is loads of fun to surf for music. It is not the best sounding tuner I have heard, but it is not bad. The sound can be improved by connecting the digital outs to a good DAC. So even recently they had good stuff.
Dave
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