Quiz... What's this? (Nudiessss)

FockeWulf190D · Jun 5, 2008

New Toy in Town... guess... First Clue: A healthy Preamp (colled Control Amp) HE HE !! :smoke:

Some curiosities: RIAA response stated 1Hz-30KHz +0 -0.2 !!! for MM ; 300 Vms rise time for Flat Amp!! ; THD < 0.005% .... see ...
Made (well, as it used to be) in Japan in 1980.

dr*audio · Jun 5, 2008

Looks like a Harman Kardon something or other to me.

FockeWulf190D · Jun 5, 2008

Mmmm... nope Dr.! Is from the land of the rising sun... Is a rare combo, with it's mating power amp, as Axel Said in his site!!.... (maybe a "vault search") .... :smoke:

merrylander · Jun 5, 2008

Yamaha but no idea which model.

FockeWulf190D · Jun 5, 2008

A big step closer!!!!!! but.... Noooo, Noooo , Noo (as said by Ami Winehouse)
I 'll end in minutes with this mistery (I can't stand the stress)

beans · Jun 5, 2008

FockeWulf190D said:
A big step closer!!!!!! but.... Noooo, Noooo , Noo (as said by Ami Winehouse)
I 'll end in minutes with this mistery (I can't stand the stress)

So it's not even a Yammy? That would've been my guess.

YamahaFreak · Jun 5, 2008

It looks to me like a Sony something-or-other. :scratch2:

FockeWulf190D · Jun 5, 2008

OK Guys !! This is for you, Kindred spirits!
TEAC PA-7

YamahaFreak · Jun 5, 2008

It was the centered volume knob that threw me off!

I kept seeing the flat selectors and thinking 'Yamaha C Series'. The only reason I said Sony was because they were the only ones I could think of at the moment that labeled their preamps as control amps. Go figure. Nice machine, BTW :thmbsp:

FockeWulf190D · Jun 5, 2008

BTW, tomorrow i'll post it's partner... MA-7.... FFFFFFFFFFF 150W/8 250W/4 , 0.003 THD, 120 msec risetime , 120dB S/N , Dual Mono, 100 damping F ..... :music:

dr*audio · Jun 5, 2008

FockeWulf190D · Jun 11, 2008

OK! my little digital camera came back! It was stolen by my daughter... femme fatale.... Here you can see an MA-7... it sounds beautiful, it feels VERY, VERY conservative rated at 150W/8.... 22KG.
Cheers,
Mar

stuwee · Jun 11, 2008

FockeWulf190D said:
OK! my little digital camera came back! It was stolen by my daughter... femme fatale.... Here you can see an MA-7... it sounds beautiful, it feels VERY, VERY conservative rated at 150W/8.... 22KG.
Cheers,
Mar

Mar, very cool, I'm in the market for something similar, will it play nice in the 2ohm range? Sure looks like it would, with those big as your hand trannies and caps. I'm diggin' the Marantz blue power light, I wish it had big VU's in that color

Nice!

Craig

FockeWulf190D · Jun 11, 2008

Hi Craig! thanx for your words! I think it could do fine with psicho-speakers that goes down to 2 ohms frecuently, but I wouldn't consider less than specified 4 ohms nominal or summed speakers to be on the safe side!!
As for big VU meteres I dream on those Technics beasts SE-A1... class A ... :drool:

stuwee · Jun 11, 2008

FockeWulf190D said:
Hi Craig! thanx for your words! I think it could do fine with psicho-speakers that goes down to 2 ohms frecuently, but I wouldn't consider less than specified 4 ohms nominal or summed speakers to be on the safe side!!
As for big VU meteres I dream on those Technics beasts SE-A1... class A ... :drool:

Ditto, I lost out on the SE A5MK2, too rich for me at almost $600 + $72 s/h, my 'Logans hang around 4 with dips in the 2's around 20kHz played hard, not much music content up there anyway. I really envy you that Teac set-up! and my speakers have been called sick by many, I just think it whenever I hear 'em

Craig

YamahaFreak · Jun 11, 2008

I love how that amp seems to be almost exactly the same on both sides inside. Like a mirror-imaged amplifier. :music:

I bet that does more than a few good things for the sound quality. :scratch2:

brutal · Jun 11, 2008

merrylander said:
Yamaha but no idea which model.

That was my first thought until I saw the pots. The flat pack remote switches looked Yami, but the pots on any 80's Yami I've ever seen are usually nice sealed multi-gang ALPS units.

jhal · Jun 12, 2008

Very nice!:thmbsp:

I was going to guess Nakamichi because of the "N's" silkscreened on the boards.

I would have been so wrong, lol.

BrassTeacher · Jun 13, 2008

Well, I was going to guess something even more expensive than most of the other guesses (like Luxman or Accuphase), until I scrolled down and saw the answer was given away already. Why? That volume control is the legendary ALPS "Black Beauty", not something you find everyday inside even REALLY expensive gear.

But then again, the boards didn't really look like any of the Luxman circuit boards I've ever dealt with, so I was just as lost as anyone else might have been!

FockeWulf190D · Jun 13, 2008

BrassTeacher, I was in a hurry and didn't like to bother too much ... , BTW I Have some equipment actually impossible to find out, next post maybe...:scratch2:
That Teac Combo is first class, built like the best of the 70's in 1980, I think they said "let's show them we know about this, too" and that was made in a kind of Partnership with TANNOY, they sold a system in Japan with PA-7 / MA-7 with the ARMONIA badge driving Tannoy's TOTL at that year...
How does it sound?.... ahhh and mmmmmm, all is where it has to, SOLID imaging (thanks to absolute simmetry ????....:yes

, High definition but absolute natural, I can't speak here of Low/Mid/High ... You know.. you ends listening all the test tracks as an idiot

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