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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L View Post
    Thats nice looking...no doubt dear on the bay.

    Must admit I have always been a separates man...but would consider something like that now. However it would be less than accurate to say the UK has not embraced the Receiver as many homes have AV Receivers.


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    I see your point Neil, but I don't think Andre was expecting any of us to give him a list of AV receivers in reply to his post.

    AV receivers are probably viewed by the UK average (stereo) hi-fi nut in the same way as stereo receivers were viewed back when the US, Japan & Europe were treating them as seriously as seperates.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo View Post
    I see your point Neil, but I don't think Andre was expecting any of us to give him a list of AV receivers in reply to his post.

    AV receivers are probably viewed by the UK average (stereo) hi-fi nut in the same way as stereo receivers were viewed back when the US, Japan & Europe were treating them as seriously as seperates.
    I agree, on 2 channel nearly all of them are IMHO crap...AV Receivers that is. I have never heard a good mid 70's Jap or American Receiver...in saying that I have never heard a bad one either...as i have never heard one...except for a Marantz one that sold for £250 a few years ago (can't remember the model) it was okay but not great.


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    I just lurv the look of most of these vintage receivers - and one of my plans for the next financial year is to get one or two - not to use, just to look at!
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    Oh My Gosh .... look at this humungous Rotel 1603 receiver on eBay at the moment ... 33Kg ... 180wpc ...

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    I have one of them, in pieces. A mentally challenged relative damaged it in the 80's and I have never managed to get it up and running again. Some bits are now in a landfill somewhere. Lovely sound and the best receiver ever built IMHO. But when they go faulty, they are near impossible to fix.
    I have the service manual somewhere, so if anyone on AoS buys it just let me know if you need servicing info.

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    The last one on ebay went for £385 - I wanted to bid but too steep for something I don't need, but my god, what a sexy looking piece of kit - look at the meters on that!

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    Has to be a Yamaha for me, preferably a CR1000 circa 1975. Not because they sounded wonderful, cos they didn't, but you will never find a piece of hifi anywhere whose controls feel anywhere close to the silkiness of these things. Definitely the nicest feeling hifi ever made.

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    I like Yamaha too. From the early 80s rather. Don't know whether they're considered "vintage" enough, though.

    Here's a CR-2040 (click to enlarge)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Themis View Post
    I like Yamaha too. From the early 80s rather. Don't know whether they're considered "vintage" enough, though.

    Here's a CR-2040 (click to enlarge)
    Demitri that reciever was late 70's, jap models last as long as you getting up in a morning to going to bed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
    Demitri that reciever was late 70's, jap models last as long as you getting up in a morning to going to bed
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