Got this reciever from Ebay for $50 and it came well-packed with sheet styrofoam as requested. No damage, but I wish the guy would've bagged the reciever as there was tiny styrofoam balls clinging all over the place, but that's only a minor complaint, the good part was that it worked.
Firing it up, the aux section works fine. The controls will need cleaning as there was static in the tone-defeat mode (?), but that went away when I engaged the equalizer section. The equalizer has four sliders from left to right, Super Bass, Bass, Midrange and Treble. They work well and it doesn't take much movement to hear a noticable difference in the sound. I'm running a pair of modified JBL L-150's that are pretty efficient and at 10W on the G-9K they're plenty loud and I haven't had to crank it above 50W yet, that's how strong they are (the neighbors have no problem listening in...).
Listening to the Z-7000, I picked a CD I've listened to often on the G-9K, 'The Crusaders', Rural Renewal. I noticed that the Z doesn't sound as good as the G with the tone controls totally flat. There just isn't as much there. But, and I'll add this 'but' judiciously, when you do engage the equalizer just a little bit across the range (I'm talking less than a half inch upwards), boy does this reciever sing. This might be heresy (as I own two G-9000's and have owned a G-22K), but I like this little 90 wpc guy as much as the G-series!
Maybe it's the Super Feed-forward design, but you get more detail out of the music than you would out of the G. The piano sections are especially noticable. You can actually hear the cymbals fully fade away after they're hit. I was hearing details that I haven't heard on the G. The bass output was very healthy and I had no problems feeling the music. Sitting on the couch with a tall frosty Rogue ale, I looked at the Z-7000 stacked on top of the silent G-9000 and noted that it's just about the same width and height, but not as deep, nor nearly as heavy. Silver faced and wood cased, I do believe this is a quality reciever, despite it's digital features. Tested the phono section and that worked fine too. A minor drawback was a very minor hissing noise in any of the aux or phono modes. Hopefully a shot of de-oxit will fix this. It was $50 well-spent and I hope to get it's big brother the Z-9K running.
Firing it up, the aux section works fine. The controls will need cleaning as there was static in the tone-defeat mode (?), but that went away when I engaged the equalizer section. The equalizer has four sliders from left to right, Super Bass, Bass, Midrange and Treble. They work well and it doesn't take much movement to hear a noticable difference in the sound. I'm running a pair of modified JBL L-150's that are pretty efficient and at 10W on the G-9K they're plenty loud and I haven't had to crank it above 50W yet, that's how strong they are (the neighbors have no problem listening in...).
Listening to the Z-7000, I picked a CD I've listened to often on the G-9K, 'The Crusaders', Rural Renewal. I noticed that the Z doesn't sound as good as the G with the tone controls totally flat. There just isn't as much there. But, and I'll add this 'but' judiciously, when you do engage the equalizer just a little bit across the range (I'm talking less than a half inch upwards), boy does this reciever sing. This might be heresy (as I own two G-9000's and have owned a G-22K), but I like this little 90 wpc guy as much as the G-series!
Maybe it's the Super Feed-forward design, but you get more detail out of the music than you would out of the G. The piano sections are especially noticable. You can actually hear the cymbals fully fade away after they're hit. I was hearing details that I haven't heard on the G. The bass output was very healthy and I had no problems feeling the music. Sitting on the couch with a tall frosty Rogue ale, I looked at the Z-7000 stacked on top of the silent G-9000 and noted that it's just about the same width and height, but not as deep, nor nearly as heavy. Silver faced and wood cased, I do believe this is a quality reciever, despite it's digital features. Tested the phono section and that worked fine too. A minor drawback was a very minor hissing noise in any of the aux or phono modes. Hopefully a shot of de-oxit will fix this. It was $50 well-spent and I hope to get it's big brother the Z-9K running.
