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Saw a Toshiba SA-775 at the flea market today. It's one hulking reciever with wood grained vinyl case, silver face, silver backed analog tuner dial with light blue lettering. Kind of reminded me of the face on Sansui G75xx receivers. - This Toshiba is the biggest receiver I have yet to see in person. My only reference is a Pioneer SX-1050 and the Toshiba had to be a couple inches taller and wider. I only took a quick look and the condition appeared excellent. Didn't even bother to ask how much. Total watts consumed was rated at 330 I believe. Had dual power meters but didn't pay attention to the numbers. I'm thinking of buying a small digital camera to take on my flea market excusions and start a vintage picture archive.
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This was Toshiba's entrance into the Massive Stereos You Can Weld With wars back in the mid-70s. Like all those war toys, it was well over 100W/chl with *lots* of bells and whistles plus those huge cabinets. Functionally, it was there, for sure, but sonically (IMHO) it was just another big, honkin' box. I believe there was a subsequent model before the whole big-box, high-wattage receiver craze gave way to the massive inflation of the late 70s.Cheers,
Yes, the Toshiba did have "*lots* of bells and whistles". Today was a good eye candy day. More goodies to look at that normal. Among the other stuff I saw were some Advent 2's, Baby Bdvents and Advent Legacy's all at different vendors. Also saw a really cool pair of two-way infinity bookshelf speakers with maybe a 5" driver with rubber surround and EMIT tweeters. Also saw a booksized motorola AC/DC tubed radio with 67 volt battery, an RCA radiola console with detachable mono speaker the size of a basketball and a bakelite tubed radio, the make i can't remember.
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