dc270
Now Off the Reservation
A friend of mine ran an audio/ furniture store for several years back in the mid to late seventies- early eighties. He carried the Home & some pro EV speaker line and a few amplifiers, receivers. One line he was talked into carrying was the then new "Sanyo Plus" seperates. He did not particularly like Sanyo but the rep made him a good percentage deal. Sanyo it seems was going to take over the mid to high end consumer market from the likes of Pioneer, Sansui, Marantz, etc!!!! Long story short they took a left turn into car audio just a year later and never looked back.
While they did make a step into the better made electronics market they did it with the "Plus" seried line. My friend had always encouraged me to grab some of their pieces and I would be firmly convinced he said. I finall took his advise a few days ago and made the purchase of a Pluse Series C55 preamp.
I though it a bit high to purchase at one & half duckets, but my friend said that was even cheap for that particular preamp.
Well it got to me yesterday- The "Gemeni" preamp in my tri amp rack system, while perfectly functional, needed improvement as it had a "muffled"
quality to its over all its tone. Not finding any articles of in depth review of the C55 I pushed on and put it into place- after making up some home made rack ears so it could slide easily into the single 45 degree tilted rack space.
NOW I get it!! This preamp is absolutely incredible! It smoked every preamp I had in the house and a couple of other nices ones I borowered! Super quiet, very good knob feel, it oozed quality like nothing else. To bad I did not have a turntable to test that as well. This preamp has to be one of the best kept secrets in the whole preamp world! Not a lot of electronics make their value and sound near as apparent as this preamp does. Its sound (MOSFET finals I am told) is soothing, not at all edgy or forward. Very well balanced with excellent sonic inegrity. You just want to sit around and play it all day long while the house is in flames around you.
If you are in need of a very high quality preamp, and can find the C55 as if dropped from heaven, put a lock on it and make purchase. When you hear this preamp it will make you re-think what a REAL preamp should be doing. I would love to read a proffesional review, somehwere like Hirsh/Houck labs one did, but until then if ever, I want to put out my ramblings for others to consider.
Seriously, this is a unit that should be in the hall of electronic fame. Who would have thought Sanyo ever had a quality arm like this. I will be looking into more Sanyo Plus gear- it is amazing quality sound and still pretty afoardable, at least until the word get out!
DC
While they did make a step into the better made electronics market they did it with the "Plus" seried line. My friend had always encouraged me to grab some of their pieces and I would be firmly convinced he said. I finall took his advise a few days ago and made the purchase of a Pluse Series C55 preamp.
I though it a bit high to purchase at one & half duckets, but my friend said that was even cheap for that particular preamp.
Well it got to me yesterday- The "Gemeni" preamp in my tri amp rack system, while perfectly functional, needed improvement as it had a "muffled"
quality to its over all its tone. Not finding any articles of in depth review of the C55 I pushed on and put it into place- after making up some home made rack ears so it could slide easily into the single 45 degree tilted rack space.
NOW I get it!! This preamp is absolutely incredible! It smoked every preamp I had in the house and a couple of other nices ones I borowered! Super quiet, very good knob feel, it oozed quality like nothing else. To bad I did not have a turntable to test that as well. This preamp has to be one of the best kept secrets in the whole preamp world! Not a lot of electronics make their value and sound near as apparent as this preamp does. Its sound (MOSFET finals I am told) is soothing, not at all edgy or forward. Very well balanced with excellent sonic inegrity. You just want to sit around and play it all day long while the house is in flames around you.
If you are in need of a very high quality preamp, and can find the C55 as if dropped from heaven, put a lock on it and make purchase. When you hear this preamp it will make you re-think what a REAL preamp should be doing. I would love to read a proffesional review, somehwere like Hirsh/Houck labs one did, but until then if ever, I want to put out my ramblings for others to consider.
Seriously, this is a unit that should be in the hall of electronic fame. Who would have thought Sanyo ever had a quality arm like this. I will be looking into more Sanyo Plus gear- it is amazing quality sound and still pretty afoardable, at least until the word get out!
DC
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