Present your Toshiba and Aurex units

Here is my Toshiba SA 620 receiver. It sounds very good and is the one receiver that doesn't need equalizer enhancement.
It does need to be re-veneered sometime.

Mark


I can see why, you have the bass and treble boosted to the max (looks like the loudness is engaged also) :D
 
Here's a pic of my Toshiba ST-665 I picked up yesterday for 18 bucks! My Toshiba stack is getting there.
 

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Built by Toshiba?

Here is a pic of my Project One MK IV B. Pretty sure Toshiba built these. Well built receiver. On par with Pioneer and Yamaha from the 70's.
 

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Toshiba Goodness!

Here is my Toshiba gear.

I love Toshiba gear! Not many people run Toshiba gear... they are defiantly missing out! :thmbsp:

ST-335, SY-335, SC-335
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Toshiba XR-9057
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Beautiful looking SA-514 quad receiver above.

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I would certainly agree,this Toshiba quad amp has really taken me by surprise,the build quality is exceptional as is sound,and if looks could kill! :D
It's amazing to think gear like this was coming out in 1974.Anyway have cleaned him up real nice,thus have taken some more better pics :thmbsp:

Hello,
I'm a little late to this thread. lol.
I inherited my father's SA-514 (see pics). I would love to be able to find the button/knob for the phono input.
I haven't found any luck. As far as the receiver goes, I love it. It still works great and the sentimental value is priceless.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
 

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I think I am the only AKer to ever have a set of these.Toshiba SS330w.70s floorstander two way with a 15 woofer and 60 wpc max.Strangely enough out of perhaps fifty sets of speakers that have come through my house these are the ones I prefer to listen to most.Even though they say 40 wpc they routinely take 120 wpc with ease.
 

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Here's my setup! ST-335, SY-335 Mk II (I prefer the mark 1 for looks, but the mark 2 is the same on the inside), SC-665 (which someone put blue cellophane on the meters... going to see if I can remove it easily), and a PC-3460 cassette deck. (Almost identical to the PC-335 cassette deck, with the addition of - now useless - Dolby FM).

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I'm really impressed with the 665 amplifier. The cassette deck is a mixed bag. It's a 2-head and the aurex heads are really good. It plays well and sounds amazing, but it's a 5-belt, 3-idler tire, 1-motor piano key deck... which means a nightmare on the inside. I can't get the auto-stop to work, and the service manual doesn't have any details on the transport, the idler tires are discontinued, and the rewind idler/belt design is really poor. (tight enough belt pulls the tire off the flywheel, causing tire to slip. Too loose belt and the belt slips around the pulley). Still, it has gorgeous looks and it plays well, even if the auto-stop isn't currently working. (I'll figure it out eventually... or find another deck on eBay and disassemble the transport more carefully. Auto-stop has to be disturbed when removing the flywheel, unless I remove a ton of circlips and pulleys. Which I'll do next time!)

I've just picked up an Akai GX-77 which matches the looks of the Toshiba gear a lot more than my GX-280D does. Looking forward to refurbishing that when it arrives, as it's a really visually impressive deck :)

Charles.
 
Nice set ups to all the people that have posted. Love these vintage systems. Here is mine for what it's worth.
A Toshiba SA-514 Receiver with an Audio-Reflex Turntable and a pair of Large Advent Speakers all of 1973-1974 vintage.
 

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They made Toshiba/Aurex records also. Toshiba was part of EMI IIRC

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I LOVED the Toshiba 335 amp!!! I would snag another in a heartbeat, it was a little amp with monster sound!!!!
 
This is my stack of Toshiba cassette decks. From top to bottom, the PC-5460, PC-3460, and PC-2460. I'm only missing the PC-4460 in this series.

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Charles.
 
Recently purchased a SC-335 & SY-335 very cheaply, as a bit of a repair project (Bottom is my current Pioneer SA-410 amp).

The aesthetic of the kit is amazing, beautiful units.

The pre-amp is built in Taiwan, and apparently sub-par to the Japanese made SC-335?

When free-time presents itself, I plan to purchase a multimeter and replace some faulty transistors. Hopefully eventually learning how to replace caps.

Beautiful gear!

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Well, shortly after posting my pics, someone offered me a 4460 in dire need of repair. It's fixed now too! I've got a full stack from 2460 up to 5460 now. Only missing the variants PC-335 (PC-3460 without Dolby FM) and PC-530 (PC-4460 with the Dolby FM exchanged for Dolby+MPX filter). After repairing all four of these decks, I've figured out all the quirks needed to get them operational. There's a common part in the takeup spindle that goes bad and causes severe dragging, making rewind and fast-forward slow and unusable. Plus some spring upgrades and the proper belts (the PC-3460 through 5460 all use the PC-335 belt kit, but with a smaller main belt. That main belt is the same for all of these, however). The PC-2460 has a completely different transport, and it doesn't have the same problems... it really just needs belts and tires and then it works again without any modifications. Very simple and very cheap on the inside. The 2460 has nowhere near the same level of quality construction that the rest in the series boast.

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Only the 5460 has cassette label lighting, and none of them had tape counter lighting. The 3460 and 4460 both have provisions for the label lighting, however, so I've added it there. I've got my 3460 apart again now to add the label lighting as well as tape counter lighting. The blue LED tape window lights is a modification I made some time ago, they were originally a blue-tinted incandescent bulb that the paint had long since faded on.

Charles.
 
Any owner of a Aurex SC-Λ99 power amp? Or were these made only for the Japanese market?

- 50 watts in Class A
- Dual FET differential input stage
- DC ~ 500kHz
- S/N 128dB
- 66lbs / 30kg
- 550,000 yen in 1981

Front panel reminds some Adcom amps, beautiful to see it anyway...

No sign of schematics of it anywhere...

http://www.niji.or.jp/home/k-nisi/sc-lambda99.html

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There is also a SY-99 preamp, but no info on when it was released, etc...

http://www.hifido.co.jp/KW/G0102/J/1210-10/C06-25593-63413-00/

A beautiful pair anyway...

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My 2 Toshibas are SA-3500 and SA-420. I believe the 420 is only 25 wpc and the 3500 is 35wpc. The size of the heat sinks and the weights would make you think they are both higher. Both have above average tuner sections and 2 tape inputs.DSCF0789.JPG DSCF0790.JPG DSCF0788.JPG DSCF0783.JPG
 

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