New 2 channel gear from Yamaha
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Will use the silver-faced CT-7000 in combo with the A-2000. Sure do need to take a better pic of the A-2000. It doesn't look nearly as bad as that flash makes it appear.
EricC
Super Member
If you must have a tuner, how about the T-1. Readily available in black.
If I'd go for a model without wood I'd start looking at Onkyo. I am really enjoying their digital tuners with RDS.
Well....yes.??? Don't all true Yamahaphiles have one?
Hmmm......maybe I'll get the faceplate on the A-2000 stripped and anodized black. That would make it a truly rare beast and the perfect match for the B-2/PX-2/CT-7000/T-2. Might even have to go back to the NS-1000M, which wouldn't be a bad thing.
The Yamaha TX-1000U is also an excellent tuner with very good sound quality and build. It has excellent high input overload capability. I have one and suggest you give it a try as well.
Check out what Tuner Information Center has to say about TX-1000 http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/yamaha.html
Check out what Tuner Information Center has to say about TX-1000 http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/yamaha.html
Sorry, I don't get it.
I'm looking at this photo:
The look / design is nothing special to my eye, the front actually looks sparse compared to most vintage integrated amps.
Does look better than a lot of the black gear of the last 20 years, but I don't think it's an especially beautiful retro design.
Just my two cents. Snade
It needs BOTH analogue and Digital VU meters!
outshined
Super Member
It needs BOTH analogue and Digital VU meters!
I like to see amplifiers with at least some sort of indicator to warn me of the onset of clipping, overload, DC at the output (guess you'll know that for sure...when it's too late.)
I see a lot of high end amps with nothing more than a power-on LED.
OvenMaster
Baby, you're my winterblue
If you must have a tuner, how about the T-1. Readily available in black.
Yum. :yes:
All the MX amps have clipping indicators, they would light up when the amplifier clips thereby warning you to back off the volume. The last MX-1 and 2 did away with those unfortunately but to bring both to clipping would take a lot of work.
outshined
Super Member
Sure, plenty of fine amps like the Yamahas you mentioned have clipping indicators. Some have meters to monitor output, or both.
But I see a trend in 5 figure (and above) amps with nothing more than a power-on lamp.
I wonder why?
Yamaha amps have always been minimalist but that doesn't mean they didn't have all the requisite necessities, but Tokyo by Night they were never.
The 5 figure and above amps have to justify their snob appeal by being even more minimals, some of them don't even amp output relays as those are supposed to degrade the sound, guess what, the thump thats caused by them being turned off and the pop when turned down does more damage to your most critical component in the audio chain, namely the speaker.
The 5 figure and above amps have to justify their snob appeal by being even more minimals, some of them don't even amp output relays as those are supposed to degrade the sound, guess what, the thump thats caused by them being turned off and the pop when turned down does more damage to your most critical component in the audio chain, namely the speaker.
restorer-john
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Have to agree with Yamaha1 there, Yamaha amps (even the big ones) never really went crazy with lights. I always thought the red bar indicators were like a power station and actually quite classy- and they could always be turned off. The later MX630/830 etc had a clipping indicator for the L and R and that was handy.
An amp without a protection relay is like a car without seatbelts- and they should be illegal. The only japanese amps I can think of that didn't have relay protection were HK's PM540/650/660 range and they used a mute input to the power amp (not much use if the outputs go huh?) The only other I can think of was that huge marantz power amp that used crowbar SCRs to blow the power fuses if I remember correctly. Inelegant and silly. Relays are more than big enough to handle any power amp.
An amp without a protection relay is like a car without seatbelts- and they should be illegal. The only japanese amps I can think of that didn't have relay protection were HK's PM540/650/660 range and they used a mute input to the power amp (not much use if the outputs go huh?) The only other I can think of was that huge marantz power amp that used crowbar SCRs to blow the power fuses if I remember correctly. Inelegant and silly. Relays are more than big enough to handle any power amp.
restorer-john
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Nothing like blown speakers to degrade the sound...because my super megabuck amp had no speaker protection in it...
HK=Harman Kardon, didn't know it was Japanese?
But no sweat for you, you are Restorer-John:thmbsp:
restorer-john
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Yamaha1, yep as Japanese as it gets, apart from the 'woodbury new york' print on the back of the units above the Made in Japan. There isn't a single characteristic of these units that isn't Japanese, even the brochures from that era are printed in Japan. I love it when Sony put a 'UK tuned' sticker on their amps- basically changed a few rolloff caps HF and LF to give the amps a 'UK sound'. Pure BS if you ask me. As far as I see it, the English invented high fidelity, the Americans supercharged it and the Japanese refined it to perfection.
