Ever seen one of these???

[redcoates7]

Very cool Pioneer mono bloc on Audiogon...one of you Pioneer geeks should take a look (I as a Kenwood geek will stand down )

...no affiliation, etc.etc

JC

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1121031489

 

[crooner]

That's an interesting unit. Too bad he doesn't have the other monoblock for stereo and the matching preamp.

It's listed on K-nisi's Page

Top of the line Pioneer unit made for the local market. Actually rated at 60 watts with low NFB.

Looks like it was made to compete with Trio's (Kenwood) L-07 series.

If it survived a year on 120V, then perhaps it was modded for this. Pioneer, unlike Sansui, had individual power transformers for each market. I doubt the transformer(s) inside this particular unit has a multi-tap primary.

 

[PMik]

Seen that amp once on display at a "high end" event,
I believe the M-Z1 to be a true Class A amp and Pioneer 1979 TOTL power-amp :scratch2: