LXI Series

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Sanyo.
 
I was thinking it didn't look Pioneerish, and now that you mention it, it does look Sanyoish, if memory serves.
 
Drybasement said:
I got this info from another website:

Store Brands - Not Recommended

These are the units that department stores have put their own name on, like J.C Penney. Sears has Sears Electronics, Kenmore, and LXI. Canadian Tire had Pulser, Wal-Mart has Durabrand, and Radio Shack has Realistic, Genexxa, and units that carry the store name. Store brand electronics such as these are a real box of "Forest Gump chocolates" - you never know what you're going to get. Usually the store asks for bids from several manufacturers, and whoever will build 50,000 at the cheapest possible price gets the contract. Of course, when a manufacturer is asked to build a really cheap product that they aren't going to have their own name put on, how good do you think they are going to make it? The store branded electronics are always the cheapest line the store carries, and since the manufacturer could be anyone, I think these are best to avoid.
For a while Sears was selling stripped-down Sanyos, then stripped-down RCA for their own lines, now I'm not sure. Canadian Tire's Pulser was all stripped-down Daewoo, but Daewoo wouldn't recognize Pulser as their own, and refused to sell parts. Radio Shack had Funai building their VCRs for a while, which may still be true. And if anyone knows where Wal-Mart's Durabrand comes from, let me know.

I've never thought of LXI to be anything but average, low priced consumer electronics. Just a cut above Emerson.

DB
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Wow...is there any question where wal-fart gets there stereos?
 
Hifirob2 said:
What I remember about the LXI gear back in the early-mid 80's - it was interesting, but not enough to get me to buy any of it. A lot of it looked like Soundesign (from the back).

I did go to the other end of the mall to JCPenney's to play with their MCS gear, also. That stuff I bought (on clearance), and loved (still do) - maybe a little too much.

What about the Montgomery Ward rack systems from this era?? Who made them? Was it Pilot? That name is in my head for some reason. It sounded powerful in the store, but very muddy IIRC.

Oh well, nice OLD thread.........FWIW - an LXI 10 band EQ just went for almost $15 on that auction site. It looked like Radio Shack in the front, and Soundesign from the back (no affiliation).

The pics of ImaTube's LXI gear looks to be their best effort - nice stuff!

Rob
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I actually have a pilot reciever. Only bought it cause I figured id never see another. Not a horrible little reciever. Actually for what it is its pretty nice.
 
Pilot was a respected name in the early days of HiFi and stereo. I think they were out of Long Island, but don't know why I think that. They went under, or at least almost disappeared some time in the 60s. They reappeared in the early mid 70s with some pretty good equipment which was made in Japan, but didn't catch the world on fire. I've seen pictures of later rack systems and so on which look much more down market, so I assume someone bought the name and slapped it on whatever they could find.
 
Rodzilla said:
wow yeah old thread!

just thought i would add that some of the LXI stuff was also remarked sherwood..who did in fact sell exactly the same models under it's own name..i picked up an LXI integrated and tuner some time ago..the tuner had issues,but i also happened to have the sherwood equivilant on hand from even earlier...a quick swap of the black sherwood faceplate for the LXI's silver one and all was right with the system,except for cosmetics the two were identical...tho the system itself is nothing to rave about,it does look sorta cool,and even if not oozing with greatness,it sounds ok and is honestly quite a powerful beast
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This was Inkel era Sherwood, not the good Chicago built and early Japanese outsourced Sherwood, which the brand's legacy was based on.
 
Nat said:
Pilot was a respected name in the early days of HiFi and stereo. I think they were out of Long Island, but don't know why I think that. They went under, or at least almost disappeared some time in the 60s. They reappeared in the early mid 70s with some pretty good equipment which was made in Japan, but didn't catch the world on fire. I've seen pictures of later rack systems and so on which look much more down market, so I assume someone bought the name and slapped it on whatever they could find.
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Pilot Radio's tube equipment had a very good reputation for being reliable and great sounding. Pilot's transistor era gear was after the National Union buyout which made them a sister brand of Emerson, and also they had reliability problems with age. A lot of it was the fact that they used Germanium transistors.
 
Not to hijack the thread, but some of the Inkel era Sherwood stuff is pretty good - I had the Mosfet (I think) power amp which I liked. The preamp, less so.
 
Nat said:
Pilot was a respected name in the early days of HiFi and stereo. I think they were out of Long Island, but don't know why I think that.
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Yes, Long Island City. My brother worked for them way back when.
 
LXI 564.92560900 any good?

 

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Looks like a decent lower end model. Everything always depends on condition and price.
 
Anyone know who the manufacturer “570” was?

They weren’t listed in the list I found via the link earlier on the thread.
 
bubbajack80 said:
Anyone know who the manufacturer “570” was?

They weren’t listed in the list I found via the link earlier on the thread.
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Do you have a pic of it? Some vendors had multiple numbers because they built in different countries. Probably Sanyo.
 
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bubbajack80 said:
LXI 564.92560900 any good?
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I’ve got an LXI 9257 which is probably the next step up from the 9256. My LXI adds a speaker selector next to the headphone jack (can run 2 pairs of speakers) and also adds a Low Filter button. I know my 9257 puts out 16 watts based on the STK amp that’s in it (the left channel is a bit clippy at moderate sound levels so I researched replacing the STK. doesn’t look like ‘real’ ones are available anymore).

I’m currently running this LXI in my home office driving a pair of KLH 22 speakers. The tuner works great. And the phono stage isn’t half bad (Dual 505-1). And Spotify from my PC into the Aux sounds great.

This is the first LXI I’ve owned. Got it for peanuts at a yard sale. Cleaned up pretty nice. And for background soun-level home office work it sounds just fine. I for one will be on the lookout for similar LXI receivers. Under the radar and cheap.
 
dly66 said:
Found this old thread talking about your model:
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/sears-570-receiver.578286/

The push button tuning at the left end looks like a more modern version of the "Tune-O-Matic" used in some 60s Fisher units.
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Hey thanks for the link!

I guess I should have tried the full 15 digit part number on the search.

Usually that has turned up less (if any) results but I’ll have to go back to it.,

That was a very very informative thread!!
 
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