Sony STR-V4 find

[Steez51]

My buddy called me and said this unit was at the local GW. Busted ass down there and sucked er up for 52 out the door. Perfect. Almost flawless. all lights and meters and controls in perfect working order. damn I love power meters. No scratchy pots or problems. Incredible sound. Separation is great. Bass and Treble don't really need dialing-just centered for good tone. Its a nice pure sound even with digital media.



Happy day.
Now...I have it on my test bench(really just a work bench) hooked up to Baby Advent I's. Any recommendations on a good speaker match? No high dollar stuff please. I have ARs KLHs Advents and Polk SDA CRS+s.
Anything else come to mind?

 

[jimbo2k]

Nice, love the old sony equipment, tho prefer the discrete series 70xx just before. Had a str 4800db that immediately preceeded the V series but returned it cuz of FM troubles. Enjoy. Jim

 

[onwardjames]

Very nice. I owned a STR-7065A for years, and regrettably, let it go for far too little. Enjoy that beauty!

 

[dshoaf]

For speakers, you've got some good ones already. There's nothing magical about matching speakers to a pretty standard stereo receiver that the Sony V4 is. It is more a matter of what you like, how large the room you'll use it in and how loud you typically operate the speakers.

Cheers,

David

 

[Blue Shadow]

This unit gets run down on AK because it was a later fill in for the STR-V line. Late to the party and folks just love the big units. The 6 and especially the 7. But those are power pack units and the 4 is discrete. There are some writeups on the asylum saying the V4 that the posted rebuild was one fantastic receiver.
I have loaned mine to a friend's kids for their game/audio system. Since one has left the house and the other has gone to college, I might be getting it back in the not to distant future. Nice unit, picked it up with a pair of near pristine ADS L710 (early, cloth=clean drivers) for short money. Still have the ads.

 

[bryblob]

Nice, I had bought an STR-V5 a while ago for very cheap, turns out it did not work. Ended up selling it, but yeah that was a big receiver, pretty nice looking with the green lights too.

 

[Electone]

I owned a V4 for several years. Solid, beautiful, and great sounding. I just wish it had an AUX input.

 

[Blue Shadow]

I owned a V4 for several years. Solid, beautiful, and great sounding. I just wish it had an AUX input.

Were both tape inputs full? they are the same as AUX, electrically, just switched differently.

 

[BilboBaggins]

I had an STR-V4 for a while. It is a beautiful receiver and sounds pretty good too! It would go well with the Tannoy Stratfords, bookshelf Yamaha speakers, ads, JBL L-46 or L26, and similar. I love the Sony receivers of the 70s and early 80s! They have a full rich sound to them I like.

 

[Electone]

Were both tape inputs full? they are the same as AUX, electrically, just switched differently.

Yes. I run computer audio, a CD player and a tape deck in my family room system and ran out of inputs on the V4.

 

[SiCo Amp]

This unit gets run down on AK because it was a later fill in for the STR-V line. Late to the party and folks just love the big units. The 6 and especially the 7. But those are power pack units and the 4 is discrete. There are some writeups on the asylum saying the V4 that the posted rebuild was one fantastic receiver.
I have loaned mine to a friend's kids for their game/audio system. Since one has left the house and the other has gone to college, I might be getting it back in the not to distant future. Nice unit, picked it up with a pair of near pristine ADS L710 (early, cloth=clean drivers) for short money. Still have the ads.

The Sony STR-V6 is most certainly NOT a "power pack" unit. I owned and personally restored one, and they have discrete outputs. I also have an STR-7800... again, discrete outputs. Perhaps you were thinking of the earlier STR-6800 and STR-5800? They used the power packs... and frankly, they are nice units too.

 

[SiCo Amp]

This unit gets run down on AK because it was a later fill in for the STR-V line. Late to the party and folks just love the big units. The 6 and especially the 7. But those are power pack units and the 4 is discrete. There are some writeups on the asylum saying the V4 that the posted rebuild was one fantastic receiver.
I have loaned mine to a friend's kids for their game/audio system. Since one has left the house and the other has gone to college, I might be getting it back in the not to distant future. Nice unit, picked it up with a pair of near pristine ADS L710 (early, cloth=clean drivers) for short money. Still have the ads.

BTW, I have two Luxman MB3045 hooked up to my system right now. I just finished restoring them for a local audio buddy who will pick them up this afternoon. I took a bunch of pictures but unfortunately, can't find an easy way to load them to this site. It was a nice nostalgic trip to work on these little fellows... I used to own a pair from about 1991 to 2005.

 

[SiCo Amp]

Inside the Lux

 

[SiCo Amp]

Outside the Lux

 

[SiCo Amp]

Firing up the Lux for a sonic test.

 

[SiCo Amp]

Just a couple pics of the restoration process.

 

[SiCo Amp]

Oops, sorry, not trying to high jack the thread, so back to the subject of the Sony...this was my V6 that I sold about two weeks ago.

 

[SiCo Amp]

This is my 7800

 

[SiCo Amp]

This was my 6800 - showing the power packs... which are not as bad as some make them out to be.

 

[SiCo Amp]

Sorry about all the photos. Please forgive the minor high jacking... too early in the morning and I wasn't thinking straight. Hopefully you all will enjoy looking at the pictures.