Hey people,
New arrival here in the forums. Great thread, I found out a lot which I couldn't find out anywhere else.
I just bought my first proper living room stereo off ebay, can't wait till I get it and hook it all up. I've been out of touch for a good few years. Used to have a Technics VZ220 amp hooked up to my PC through my teens which was doing a great job. Later on I moved out and strayed off the path when I bought some kit off a friend at a bargain. Pair of active KRK Rokkit 5's and a Yamaha 12 channel mixer, add to that a couple of DJ turntables and a DJ mixer which I never really had the time to get into DJing and all that gear was fine when I was single but now is a bit ridiculous. In any case this was replaced this Christmas passed with an M-Audio DAC but the problem was I could not hook up a turntable to it without making a mess and buying a phono preamp. It seemed like it was either going to be a £10 preamp or something around £80 - £100 and beyond so I figured I might as well buy a whole amp and re-jig the whole setup. I decided I will move my KRKs with the DAC to my desk to exclusively run off the PC. As the KRKs are active and have 3 sets of inputs: XLR, TRS and RCA I was able to simultaneously plug in the PC and the TV and it serves as the living room set, however they don't have a phono input, hahaha, and like I said, I don't want DJ mixers any more or phono prestages laying around on my desk, since the DAC sits on my desk too and connects via some 7m cables with the speakers. Anyways I think you can see by now what kind of a mess I would be getting into...
Hence I thought damn the hacks and just get a stereo. I've been out of touch with things for so long that I didn't really know where to begin. Fortunately there wasn't much choice either, hahaha. My only requirement apart from the amp having to sound awesome and have a good phono stage was that it looks presentable in the living room and have VU metres - because I just love these!
Like I said, there wasn't really much choice so I have an SU-Z1 coming my way, because it has VU meters, looks good and I can't listen to it on ebay. So I was hoping to find out what I actually bought and where it stands in the ranks, but even here I wasn't able to find out too much:
The SU-V series was Technics full sized HiFi line that introduced new class A circuitry in 1978. Their other offering was the SU-Z series (Z1 and Z2)
Really hoping to find out some more while I wait. To go with that amp I also found Tannoy Eclipse 1 at a bargain price. Turns out they recently went out of sale and I found the last lot of them half price on ebay, brand new, which is promising.