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We all have certain pieces of equipment in our memories that we always wanted and dreamed about, but, at the time, were out of reach. And in the pre-internet days, almost always impossible to find used. And even with the internet, some are still elusive. For me it was always JVC's flagship receiver, the JR-S600.
I never had any interest in Kenwood, Pioneer or Marantz. Too much wood (and usually fake wood) or even worse, Mactac on a metal cover. Nope, those all reminded me of everybody's parents living rooms...Good grief, they all looked like miniaturized Fleetwood or Electrohome consoles. Yuck.
I've never forgotten when the JVC JR-S series of receivers first hit the shelves in the late seventies; if some starship came equipped with a sound system, these would've been it.
180WPC into 4Ω? Yikes.
Black and silver faceplate, the blue meters (believe me, McIntosh was NOT the well-known household name it is today) and those side panels that look like they came out of a machine shop. Wow.
And that's before you even pop the cover; huge potted toroidal power transformer (virtually unheard of in the seventies), multiple regulated power supplies, twin heatsinks with four TO-3's per, filter caps the size of beer cans, FET switching for the twin phono inputs, and enough circuit boards for a cruise missile guidance system. And packed in just as tight. This was nerd heaven!
Last weekend I lucked into a near-mint, single owner JR-S600. Over many decades, I have had every single model of this series (and the subsequent JR-Sx01 types) cross my bench, always for minor issues. But I have never encountered the first-edition flagship 600. Unbelievable
After I deal with cleaning all of the many intermittent sliders and switches, and give the insides a good vacuuming with the old 3M, I'll see where things stand. OMG, there is a LOT of stuff in here..
Oh, did I mention that this unit spent it's entire life in a non-smoking/no pets home? Again, unbelievable!
I never had any interest in Kenwood, Pioneer or Marantz. Too much wood (and usually fake wood) or even worse, Mactac on a metal cover. Nope, those all reminded me of everybody's parents living rooms...Good grief, they all looked like miniaturized Fleetwood or Electrohome consoles. Yuck.
I've never forgotten when the JVC JR-S series of receivers first hit the shelves in the late seventies; if some starship came equipped with a sound system, these would've been it.
180WPC into 4Ω? Yikes.
Black and silver faceplate, the blue meters (believe me, McIntosh was NOT the well-known household name it is today) and those side panels that look like they came out of a machine shop. Wow.
And that's before you even pop the cover; huge potted toroidal power transformer (virtually unheard of in the seventies), multiple regulated power supplies, twin heatsinks with four TO-3's per, filter caps the size of beer cans, FET switching for the twin phono inputs, and enough circuit boards for a cruise missile guidance system. And packed in just as tight. This was nerd heaven!
Last weekend I lucked into a near-mint, single owner JR-S600. Over many decades, I have had every single model of this series (and the subsequent JR-Sx01 types) cross my bench, always for minor issues. But I have never encountered the first-edition flagship 600. Unbelievable
After I deal with cleaning all of the many intermittent sliders and switches, and give the insides a good vacuuming with the old 3M, I'll see where things stand. OMG, there is a LOT of stuff in here..
Oh, did I mention that this unit spent it's entire life in a non-smoking/no pets home? Again, unbelievable!
