Tower Boss
Super Member
I have been casually looking for the right Hitachi components to acquire. I have many integrated and separates from others, and had really been looking for a nice HMA/HCA-8300 combo to surface. I also had plans on eventually looking for their top reciever from that era, the SR-2004.
Well low and behold I ended up with the Beast Receiver first. Not in my hands yet, as I just secured its purchase and it was just dropped off at UPS for shipping this afternoon. I had to work around a slight catch as I live in Washington and the Receiver was in New York, and was being sold only for local pickup.
Therefore, I decided to take a gamble and posted a request in the Pony Express Forum seeking any AK member local to the area that could pick it up for me and deliver to shipping service. Immediately fellow AK member JonL replied informing me he would be able to assist with pickup, so with that I decided to pursue its purchase. As it turned out, I never needed Jon’s assistance as the seller was more than accommodating, as he delivered it to the UPS Store for packaging and shipment for me within hours of the sale.
Now some details about the receiver condition. After talking to the seller, all controls and preamplifier section are perfect, no noise, all functions work, etcetera, etcetera. There is a problem in the amplifier section though, as the right channel has some distortion and the left is fine. I will not know what the cause is until its arrival, but have plans on a complete restoration of it anyways. I have my local shop here do some routine maintenance on some things I don’t have enough time for, but would like to find a Hitachi Guru to send this off to for repair & restoration. Any recommendations or things I could inform my local crew about this classic if I have them perform the task?
Here is a seller photo of the Beast:
Shown here with some other Monsters:
Top to Bottom - Nikko NR-1415 / Hitachi SR-2004 / Kenwood KR-9600 / Marantz 2600 / Rotel RX-1603 / Pioneer SX-1980
In closing many thanks to JonL for standing by if needed. :thmbsp:
Regards,
TB
Well low and behold I ended up with the Beast Receiver first. Not in my hands yet, as I just secured its purchase and it was just dropped off at UPS for shipping this afternoon. I had to work around a slight catch as I live in Washington and the Receiver was in New York, and was being sold only for local pickup.
Therefore, I decided to take a gamble and posted a request in the Pony Express Forum seeking any AK member local to the area that could pick it up for me and deliver to shipping service. Immediately fellow AK member JonL replied informing me he would be able to assist with pickup, so with that I decided to pursue its purchase. As it turned out, I never needed Jon’s assistance as the seller was more than accommodating, as he delivered it to the UPS Store for packaging and shipment for me within hours of the sale.
Now some details about the receiver condition. After talking to the seller, all controls and preamplifier section are perfect, no noise, all functions work, etcetera, etcetera. There is a problem in the amplifier section though, as the right channel has some distortion and the left is fine. I will not know what the cause is until its arrival, but have plans on a complete restoration of it anyways. I have my local shop here do some routine maintenance on some things I don’t have enough time for, but would like to find a Hitachi Guru to send this off to for repair & restoration. Any recommendations or things I could inform my local crew about this classic if I have them perform the task?
Here is a seller photo of the Beast:
Shown here with some other Monsters:
Top to Bottom - Nikko NR-1415 / Hitachi SR-2004 / Kenwood KR-9600 / Marantz 2600 / Rotel RX-1603 / Pioneer SX-1980
In closing many thanks to JonL for standing by if needed. :thmbsp:
Regards,
TB