Received Wisdom

[The Grand Wazoo]

To me some of the best pieces were relatively low powered, not particularly highly specified in the features dept., & ostensibly pretty run of the mill........but oh so sweet sounding!

[aquapiranha]

I had a nice sounding Rotel....

[The Grand Wazoo]

I had a nice sounding Rotel....

I'm sure there's a Boo Hewerdine song / Clive Gregson & Christine Collister album called 'Love is a Strange Rotel'.........................maybe not........

[aquapiranha]

I'm sure there's a Boo Hewerdine song / Clive Gregson & Christine Collister album called 'Love is a Strange Rotel'.........................maybe not........

Maybe if you had a japanese accent?

[The Grand Wazoo]

Maybe if you had a japanese accent?

No, that would be 'Rove is a Stlange Lotel'

[James G]

No, that would be 'Rove is a Stlange Lotel'

Chris, I think you've spent some time in Japan!

[The Grand Wazoo]

I've just spent a good part of the day today indulging in my fetish for 70's receivers and have been playing about with a few. One of the objects of the exercise was to compare a big old Sony to a big old Yamaha. This was to compare them as amplifiers. The tuner sections, I'll be doing later.

So I took my long pre - power amp interconnect that runs from the little room with the gear in it & plugged it into the Accuphase CD player & then to the Yamaha & Sony in turn. I used a set of Cyrus solid core speaker cables & some home made jumpers to single wire the Mirage M3si's.

The Yamaha CR-1020 went first & I was reminded of just how good this receiver is & why I like it. Although I use it every day, it rarely gets to stretch out & gallop because it normally feeds a pair of speakers that sit just over an arms length away, so high power is not usually required. Feeding the Mirages, though, is different as they seem to suck up big amps & still ask for more. It grabbed hold of the Mirages with both hands & hung on. All in all, it was pretty much thumbs up, really.

So, on to the Sony.
This an STR V5 that was kindly donated by a fellow forum member (thanks again Dave!). The tuner section looks like it might be a good one with a 5-gang set up for FM.
This is fully 5" deeper than my Levinson power amps, not quite as tall and a full 19" wide (whereas the Levinsons are 19" rack mount width - so the casework is a good bit narrower than the width of the faceplates).

Sony STR-V5



The end of the testing period - teeny weeny Genexxa's / big bruisin' Mirages / Sony on the floor / Yamaha perched on top of a Levinson / cables everywhere!


I spent the rest of the day with the Yamaha knocking out several albums worth of music. It sounds great & if push came to shove, you could do a lot worse.

[Rare Bird]

That Yammi is a classic that takes some beating..

[aquapiranha]

Nice LX-5's. I know someone with a pair and they sound great.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Nice LX-5's. I know someone with a pair and they sound great.

It always surprises me what they can do when you squirt some proper whoomptie up 'em! They're very capable indeed.