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Amended list of 150+ wpc receivers!

Within the next week or two I'm going to be digging into a Kenwood KR9600. It's been sitting on a shelf in near my workbench for a few years now and no technician at this record shop I've been working at (as a hobby and because its fun) has even dared to touch it.

needless to say, I'm excited to work on one of these big bois.
 
txturbo said:
The Krell KAV-300R. Produced for a short time in the late 90's and not easy to find. It's basically a Krell KAV-300i integrated with an excellent tuner by Day Sequerra. It puts out 150 WPC into 8 ohms and doubles to 300 into 4 ohms. Put together with the build quality you would expect from Krell. Even the remote is solid metal.
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I still have my Krell KAV-300R, though I'm using a tube amp currently. It's a very cool receiver. It also has a "Theater Throughput" option that allows the amp to easily switch acting as a standalone two-channel stereo and being used as extra channels in the theater system (automatically bypassing the internal volume/balance controls in throughput mode). The remote on the KAV-300 is actually a normal plastic remote, which is a bit of a blessing in reality. The Krell HTS AV preamp I used to have had the solid brushed aluminum remote, and while it was the coolest thing in the world to look at, it was pretty heavy in use. I felt like I'd lose a toe and or chip the wood floor if dropped it :). Only half joking about that, it was pretty heavy and difficult to hold. The build quality was indisputably cool though.
 
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I don't think the Sanyo JCX-2900K has ever had the correct specs entered into this thread. The service manual says, at 1% distortion, it does 140x2 into 8 ohms and 150x 2 into 4 ohms. It seems like there should be more of a jump there, but that's what the spec sheet says.
 
Here is the USA service manual showing 150wpc for the Fisher RSZ1 into 8 ohms.
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Nice list,
bully said:
Not exhaustive, but were there any others??

The OVER 200 wpc gang:
Technics SA-1000 330x2 $1,700
Marantz 2600 300x2 1,600
Sansui G-33000 300x2 (nyah, cheater, cheater ) 1,900
Pioneer SX-1980 270x2 1,295
Marantz 2500 250x2 1,595
Sansui G-22000 220x2 (oops, two pieces here, too) 1,400
any others??

200-watters
Sansui G-9700 200x2 $1,100
Kenwood KR-9050 200x2 1,150
Hitachi SR-2004 200x2 1,095
Sanyo PLUS 200 ........ 200 watts per ch. $??

The fantastic "160-watt class"
Marantz 2385 185x2 $1,100
Pioneer SX-1280 185x2 950
Technics SA-5770 ........ 185 watts per ch. 800
S.A.E. TWO R18 ........ 180 watts per ch. $??
Rotel RX-1603 180x2 (?) totl 1,100
Nikko NR-1415 175x2 totl 850
Fisher RS-1080 170 watts per channel 999
Yamaha CR-3020 170x2 totl 1,500
Concept 16.5 165x2 totl 895
Technics SA-5760 ........ 165 watts per ch 800
Kenwood KR-9600 160x2 totl 775
Onkyo TX-8500 MkII 160x2 totl 999
Pioneer SX-1250/5590 160x2 totl 950
Sansui G-8700 [160 wpc] 1978-80 ? 920?
Sansui G-9000/901 160x2 totl 1,100
Sansui 9900Z 160x2 (1981-82) 1,130
Fisher RS-2015 150 wpc (1980-82) 800
Project-One Mark 1500DC 150 wpc (80-84) 900
Sony STR-V7 150x2 totl 900
Yamaha R-2000 150x2 (1981-83) totl 900
Carver The Receiver 150x2 (intro'd @ 130 wpc) 799
Toshiba SA-7150 ........ 150 watts per ch. 1,100



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Nice list, it will help when hunting for "big ones"..., clarification for me, is that Peak or RMS ratings? or is it a mix of both depending on the specs?
To me all I care about is the peak, until the amp clips.
 
ctad2 said:
NIKKO NR-1415 175W/CH VS SONY STR_V7 150W/CH



NIKKO nr1415 VS SONY STR V7 music test - YouTube
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I love these kinds of side-by-side tests -- would really love to see vintage vs modern -- not enough of those done in my opinion. This video would be a million times better if he had captions showing what the settings are and spent more time switching back and forth on "apple's vs apple's" settings. It's pretty hard to see what the settings are, even on full screen it's difficult to distinguish, for example if a switch label says "on" or "off".
 
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