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I remember arguments erupting about which receiver was better or best.
So I'm starting out with this little gem.
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I have owned, or heard nearly every top-class receiver made. In the SS category, I find my Sony GX900ES to be the most transparent and refined, with a completely discrete preamp, killer phonostage, and best headphone output overall.
Other contenders are select models of HK, (early) Kenwood, Luxman, (early) Marantz, McIntosh, Proton, Revox, Stereotech, Tandberg, and the original Yamaha series.
The Pioneer SX1010 gets special mention for its own brand of magic throughout!
Add the Nakamichi's to the list.
The best sounding receiver that I have had in my system was a Kyocera. There are not to many of these around because they were high priced, but the build was top notch.
Dave
Rockin' a black-faced Superscope R-1240 Custom Component Series receiver here in computer room. Inherited from Hippie John up in Gridley, upon whom moi bestowed 1240 back in '90. Sweetly sings its' Marantz harmonic heritage through modded Sansui SP-2500s after recapping power supply from 4,700 uf to 6,800 uf. Routing computer audio through ceramic phono input mellows out that digital stridency.
I remember you posting mods for the SP25000 many years ago. Am I remembering correctly? Those Sansui speakers are so efficient and the impedance so benign that just about anything can drive them to ear splitting levels.
Dave
Indeed you are, Crazy Dave. Those modded 2500's differentiate amplifier-n-program source tonality quite distinctly, too. Thanks once again to Audio Karma's Robisme for bestowing them on moi.
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all the best,
mrh
Eight track and cassette!
ET
Now now calm down. I will sell it to you for a good price.
My neighbor actually did have this one in his garage. It had an equally amazingly cheap pair of speakers that come with it.
If I had the room it would be nice to have one just as a joke stereo.
Some of those speakers have Japanese Alnico full-range drivers that are very good. Check before you toss!
Dave
that thing come with wheels?
...the Yamaha CR-3020...
24" wide, 81 pounds and 180 watts of elegance.
I actually sold one when I was in the biz back in the day. I have not seen one since. For me, the ultimate receiver.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Of course, the Hitachi HS-500 speakers may have something to do with the overall result. With the phono section operating, it's the kind of sound I can sit back and enjoy for a long session.
They were often just a NAD better. ;^)
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
I had that one. NICEEEEEEEEE. I also have to ask myself why the hell did I sell it.
I think I was at the height of my stereo horse trading days. I had to keep moving on so to speak. What a shame because I really REALLY did like that one.
I also had some of the monster Pioneers and they really were not anything special sound wise. Impressive as hell to look at but not much in the sound department.
Yamaha's biggie was nice and SOME of the big Marantz's were nice.
charles
No comment......
I bought it from a friend who used it to drive his Acoustic Research AR90 speakers. This 1978 model is rated at 270 watts per channel, and you know it when you see the rear black cooling fins. It houses a giant transformer and the four big storage capacitors. All I can say is the SX-1980's power rating isn't just for marketing hype as they powered my Infinity QA speakers with excellent results and then some.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I settled for an SX-750, but my Klipsch Heresy and Thorens TD-145 smoked his speakers and TT!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I have always said that the Pioneer SX*750 was one of the top ten best receivers. It excelled in every way. Looks, sound, personality, every thing was perfect on that stereo. Another VERY bad decision letting that one go.
Of all the Marantz's the best of the bunch were the 2216b,2226b and the 2230. I had the 2270 and most of the big ones. But my taste leaned towards those.
I had a 1250 I bought in 1978 on clearance for $199. That was 165/ch. It was OK, especially for the money. I had a B&O 3404 and Polk RTA-12 which were real nice.
ET
I searched the Internet, but couldn't find my first stereo. It was sold by the Singer Sewing company. A receiver, a BSR mini-changer, and little one way speakers. I got it for my 15th birthday, in 1969.
My friend's second system was a Marantz 2270 with KLH speakers. He then went with stacked pairs of the original large Advents.
Although I doubt the 2270 was the best I always thought it was a great receiver.
I think I saw the singer once. A 2270 with stacked Advents sounds like a good system to me!
Dave
That was a re-badged KLH 20 or something very close to it that was released after KLH's acquisition by Singer in 1964. It is incontrovertible proof of the ancient maxim, "Loudspeakers and sewing machines don't mix."
No, I don't think so. It was more similar to the Panasonic complete stereo systems of that time. A separate receiver and stand alone mini-changer. It had a ceramic cartridge
I replaced the tt with a Garrard SL65 from Olson Electronics, within the first year I owned it.
Singer had like 2 or 3 stereos they sold. Thet also had a record section. They threw in one LP when my parents took me there to get it. I choose Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers".
It was all upward from there a Kenwood integrated amp, large Advents, then a Dual 1219,and various cassette decks. And lots of upgrades ever since.
I choose Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers".
Good choice!
Dave
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