AudioWizard
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Need a small bench receiver, I was thinking about a Marantz 2210/Sansui 551/ NAD or ?Looking for recommendations.
Best small receiver (physically)
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darkblue94
The Devil made me do it.
The Marantz is one cool little receiver indeed. I almost bought one once just because it was so cute, like a dwarf bunny rabbit. 
The Marantz is a 2010, and I just sold mine on BT a few days ago. Bit pricey for a bench receiver.
Try to find a Realistic or Superscope receiver, they had some small units.I use a Superscope integrated, small 10?watt unit, one channel out, for speaker centering during refoaming.
Try to find a Realistic or Superscope receiver, they had some small units.I use a Superscope integrated, small 10?watt unit, one channel out, for speaker centering during refoaming.
I recently gave my B-I-L a Sansui 221 to use in his home office, that's a really small receiver yet it still has the traditional phono inputs and a tape monitor loop, pretty good tuner too:
But truthfully for the test bench I like a Pioneer SX-626 because I can separate the pre and power amp sections for testing other power amps or preamps, use the tuner section as a source when working on tape machines, use the phono section for turntables and of course the monitor loop for three head tape deck work. It's even got a mic input if you need to test out a microphone or a guitar. It's got a fairly small footprint for a receiver with all those features plus they're common as dirt and pretty cheap, really good to have around the bench. If you buy a working one change out the bias pots on the power amp board first thing though, they go open all the time and blow the outputs / drivers.
But truthfully for the test bench I like a Pioneer SX-626 because I can separate the pre and power amp sections for testing other power amps or preamps, use the tuner section as a source when working on tape machines, use the phono section for turntables and of course the monitor loop for three head tape deck work. It's even got a mic input if you need to test out a microphone or a guitar. It's got a fairly small footprint for a receiver with all those features plus they're common as dirt and pretty cheap, really good to have around the bench. If you buy a working one change out the bias pots on the power amp board first thing though, they go open all the time and blow the outputs / drivers.
Silentnet
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Buy this, sell the speakers?
https://home.woot.com/offers/klipsc...rAWCkRUHJO1dp6-XHnaE8hZoOu1-y_QBoCkmMQAvD_BwE
https://home.woot.com/offers/klipsc...rAWCkRUHJO1dp6-XHnaE8hZoOu1-y_QBoCkmMQAvD_BwE
mhardy6647
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Best is meaningless, but this one was/is well worth consideration - any that hasn't been rehabbed at this late date will need some attention... but it's worth it.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/advent-300-receiver
eedork
Super Member
I love Advent receivers. In addition to the model 300 mentioned by mhardy, also check out the 420S. It's tiny, not much bigger than a Minimus 7 speaker. I just purchased one and it's great!
Quadraflex also had a tiny little receiver. I can't remember the model number now, but it was quite small and supposedly very nice sounding.
-Matt
Quadraflex also had a tiny little receiver. I can't remember the model number now, but it was quite small and supposedly very nice sounding.
-Matt
TomBig58
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Advent for cool, lepai for cheap. https://www.parts-express.com/lepai...er-with-remote-usb-mp3-media-card-fm--310-302
I really like and use the Yamaha Pianocraft series as my bench receiver. I use the e400 which is pictured here, but they have a few different mini models. I keep the matching CD player on my bench as well.
Dan
Dan
AudioWizard
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Thanks for all the input, I forgot totally about the Advent and the small Naks and the Yamaha's . Forgot to mention that I will be hooking this up to my ST 1200a test panel, for that I need record out and aux input. I just want something small size wise. In the past I have used a Marantz 2210, 2215, pioneer SX424, SX525, HK 330. I have a small NAD that I was thinking of using, but I use it in the R&D part of the shop for background music, because it doesn't take up much room.
To let you know the Yamaha RX-E400 that I use had an aux input and a record out. If you’re into it, there is an FM tuner and subwoofer out. It’s literally like my RX-V3200 without the decoding etc. The photo below is not the U.S. model by the way.
Dan
AudioWizard
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Thanks formal the input, I'll start shopping.
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