Just won these on Ebay......

[Marco]

Hi Andre,

Nice one - I love how it looks, too! What a superb buy for £18.00...

Bet it would outperform some of the shite made nowadays

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

thats not hard..

[Techno Commander]

I want to buy a big classic vintage looking Jap tranny amp no less than 70 wpc for my 2nd system ... Any recomendations folks ..

A couple of goodies which might tempt you.

Sansui AU417

Sony TA F6B

Technics SU V7 (I used to have one of these, a true power house of an amp)

Technics SU V6 Very nice

[Marco]

The Sansui would get my vote (just) ahead of the Sony

Marco.

[Jac Hawk]

The Sansui would get my vote (just) ahead of the Sony

Marco.

Me too,

for me though the problem with old all be it "hi end" amps is that the caps are going to be a little tired if they are original and would need replacing, not a bad thing and to be honest is worth while doing but and here's the thing on ebay you can end up paying top dollar for an old amp due to it's past reputation, but then you will need to spend £200 plus on new caps, all of a sudden the old amp doesn't look so atractive, if you can get a bargin like the Trio Andre got, then you don't mind spending a few quid on caps, at the end of the day you can end up spending more on a vintage (if that's the right word) amp and re cap than what it actually cost when it was new. A sobering thought i'm sure you'll agree

[Rare Bird]

A couple of goodies which might tempt you.

Denon 'PM850' from the late '70's was a beauty if you ever see one

[Vinyleyes]

Me too,

for me though the problem with old all be it "hi end" amps is that the caps are going to be a little tired if they are original and would need replacing, not a bad thing and to be honest is worth while doing but and here's the thing on ebay you can end up paying top dollar for an old amp due to it's past reputation, but then you will need to spend £200 plus on new caps, all of a sudden the old amp doesn't look so atractive, if you can get a bargin like the Trio Andre got, then you don't mind spending a few quid on caps, at the end of the day you can end up spending more on a vintage (if that's the right word) amp and re cap than what it actually cost when it was new. A sobering thought i'm sure you'll agree

Thanks guys .. I'm already on it .. the Sansui is on my watch list .. I spotted it straightaway .. and it is my first choice too :-) ...... and the cost for new caps does not bother up to a certain price... after all my Triumph TR6 now costs about 5 times more than it did when new .. so I don't see a value problem with paying a little more now for a neat little piece of 70's hifi than what it cost new . .. The value of the Sansui is relative to what you would have to pay NOW on the market to get a similar performance .. and that's not putting any value on aesthetics .. which to me is worth quite a bit ..

Did anyone see the Luxman receiver .... I like that too .. does anyone rate it .. although that is gonna get a bit pricey and into the territory of Jac Hawks comments .. and certainly the Sony VFEt at 795 BIN bears out what he says ..
How good are they anyway .. has anyone here got one. Could you justify paying almost a grand for a VFET on it's performance aspect alone ..

Luxman receiver .. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[MartinT]

The Sony V-FET amps were lovely and good sounding too. The only problem might be finding compatible FETs should any fail.

[The Grand Wazoo]

The Luxman - yes please, but then I'm a bit of a one for receivers. These were regularly going for £70 just 3 years ago.
By the way, it's big (19 1/4" wide X 17" deep) and won't fit properly in a normal rack, so you should bear that in mind.

[Techno Commander]

The Sansui I recenly purchased is almost certainly going to need to be recapped (at some point). It will also require half a dozed trim pots being replaced as well as having DC offset and biasing reset.

However, once done it is likely to sound better than when new.