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In Reply to: The Monster Receiver site is sorta back! posted by pete the bully on April 13, 2007 at 09:54:19:
Interesting site and I hope it gets established and grows as a resource for owners and to preserve what may be the zenith for receivers in terms of the format's potential. However, I have 1 comment about his statements and that is the publics perception of Japanese receivers before these were intorduced. By the time the first of these were brought out US made receivers had all but disappeared. The US had realized the Japanese produced some quality products many years before during the tube era and were buying everything that was imported in. Most of it though was flowing through the military PXs due to the occupation and economic program by the US to establish a strong independent Japanese economy. GIs returning from Korea and Japan were loaded down with Roberts and Sony tape decks, Sansui, Pilot, Trio and other tuners, amps and receivers. When these landed in the US neighbors and friends saw what could be bought against the US products and the frenzy was on but the Japanese had little distributor presence here.By the advent of the SS era and despite the Sony and Superscope dispute, ditributor channels were in place and starting to work. US companies helped establish Japanses SS as fast as the distributors when Fisher introduced its Japanese units that had probably been engineered in the US and were production developed here as well. With the Lafayette LR1000 and 1500T, and the company's distribution network, Japanese products were well established in the public's eye as as good as US units. There were some dealers who held out and some buying public as well who still held feelings about the war that pushed back.
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