New Score! Victor Amp!

[dragonhead00]

Sweet Victor amp. Definitely a JVC! I'm jealous. Congrats!

 

[cap200]

Very cool! Congrats on that beauty!:drool:

 

[Kenwood Man]

i own a victor axz911 and it weighs 18kilos.
but its probably the dampening metal sheets weight

Nice Amp! I still own mine.

 

[Ghog]

Why would an amplifier made in Japan by a Japanese company and destined only for the Japanese market have all it's faceplate writing in English?:headscrat Btw, its GORGEOUS and I wish I had it. Congrats on a cool find!

 

[proimage1]

Why would an amplifier made in Japan by a Japanese company and destined only for the Japanese market have all it's faceplate writing in English?:headscrat Btw, its GORGEOUS and I wish I had it. Congrats on a cool find!

Good question ! When I was stationed in Okinawa in the early 70's, I used to wonder the same thing myself. It wasn't just with audio equipment - there was all kinds of stuff made by a Japanese company for the citizens of Japan, but you'd be surprised at how many of those items had English language all over them

 

[legal eagle]

What a beautiful amp! Will you post some more pics? with a real camera and in focus! this amp deserves the exposure.

 

[sonci]

Hello Beasty!!

Too much components though, don`t expect to sound that good..

 

[americankiwi]

this is a JVC-JDM unit..check the FM tuner..its set at 82.5...because in japan they use a diff' FM band than we do else where

 

[Leonid1001]

foto - https://cloud.mail.ru/public/61v7/66LmZhcBG
I would like to service manual still find

 

[bimasta]

Gorgeous! I found an Onkyo integrated of equal seriousness, mass, and features, obviously a "Statement" by Onkyo, the very best they could design. I thought, as Theophile suggested, this is an amp I can use for a lifetime, the "quest" is over. And I got it at a thrift for about $40.

I rushed home in great excitement, plugged it into a Variac and slowly eased it up to 100V. A conservative approach to avoid damage.

I was too late. Some American idiot had already plugged it into 120V. The entire amp was blown. To repair it would be a massive task, every single component inside would have to be removed, tested, replaced. I didn't care enough to undertake that task.

It had great beautiful knobs, machined from solid metal, that I harvested, and an Alps Black Velvet volume pot, worth far more than $40 so it wasn't a total loss.

But what a dissappointment! And it angered me that some moron destroyed such a marvellous amp, then said "What a crappy amp, it doesn't even work!"

 

[theophile]

I made that comment so long ago that I had completely and utterly forgotten about this amp. I still today think that it is a gorgeous amp.

 

[Leonid1001]

Victor JA-S20 = looking for service manual and owner manual
who helped thank you

 

[ig88]

Impressive
This must be it's grandfather
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/jvc/vn-900.shtml

 

[Leonid1001]

ig88 - спасибо