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I'm Alex.
Hi Paul,
Well, I was expecting that some would say that it was 70's cheap end rubbish. The little known fact was that it was made by Mitsubishi and generally pretty good. The SAQ206B amp was a favourite, good sounding and reliable. Mine may be 39 years old, still sounding better than a lot of amps regardless of price. I think I paid just over £20 new.Thanks for the info. There's not much point kidding on you know about something when you don't!Budget student systems in the early 70's very often included a Teleton SAQ206B, unfortunately, the rest of the system did not usually do justice to the quality of the amp.
In the early 70's I remember using one of these amps with 12" Tannoy Silver DC's. It was really good, better than many other amps, including Sugden A21 (class A), later Sugden A48 etc etc.
Interesting... As people should know by now, I love good vintage gear, but have never come across Teleton before. Unfortunately it's before my (hi-fi) time, but it sounds like good gear. Respect for using 12" Monitor Silvers all those year ago
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Sorry Paul, I was responding to Andre.
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Which was a responce to the Tellytubby amps or something remark.
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Albany House and Solarvox amps were also made by Mitsubishi, often near identical to the Teleton branded amps. Solarvox was marketed by Comet.
Spendorman
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my Arcam FMJ boxes looks cheap compared to Teleton, Nikki, Akai and others of yester years. Cost cutting I guess but why on pride and joy items for the living room?
Job CF
West Sussex
Anyone got any pics of some Teleton amps?
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Location: Middlesex, UK
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I'm Alex.
My father had a Teleton SAQ-206B amplifier
(sorry about the image quality, it was the best I could find)
It powered a pair of Wharfdale Super 8RS/DD speakers in ~1.5cu ft distributed port speakers and was fed by a Garrard SP25 25 Mk.2 fitted with AT-66 cartridge.
A nice enough sounding amp and excellent value for money, but better than the Sugden A21? Surely not.
Regards
Barry
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