What Is Your Favorite Integrated Amp?
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jammasterj13
Active Member
Sony TA-F730ES
Sony TA-F6B
Both keepers never leavers...
Outstanding Sony products!
Sony TA-F6B
Both keepers never leavers...
Outstanding Sony products!
GD70
Lunatic Member
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howardtheduc
Active Member
Sansui Au-717..certainly not the best of all time but it's the best I've heard and it's the one I kept!
GD70
Lunatic Member
Couldn't agree more! Elegant and still very contemporary!
JohnMichael
Super Member
I miss my h/k A402 and would love to hear it in my current system.
oblomov
Well-Known Member
Don't blame you...listening to mine running little JBL 4408 monitors right now.
Very nice combo!
Don't see too many A-402s. They must not have made many...
bob s
Active Member
My favorites, the Technics SU-8600, so good even the neighbors liked it! One day I walked up the street and the folks half a block away commented on how nice my stereo sounded. I had it set up in my garage driving a pair of Dynaco A-10's,the little buggers loved that amp, until the right channel went out, gotta get that fixed one of these days.
Followed by my Pioneer SA-7100, the little brother that still sounds fab, interesting that both the SU-8600 and SA-7100 were found on the roadside on garbage night!
Lastly, my Sansui AU-7700, still a great sounding IA that has flexible controls for tweaking the sound just so, problem being, it seems there is always some fiddling going on and less actual listening, maybe too much of a good thing.
Followed by my Pioneer SA-7100, the little brother that still sounds fab, interesting that both the SU-8600 and SA-7100 were found on the roadside on garbage night!
Lastly, my Sansui AU-7700, still a great sounding IA that has flexible controls for tweaking the sound just so, problem being, it seems there is always some fiddling going on and less actual listening, maybe too much of a good thing.
Brian
An Old Geezer
The L-100 is not heard about much. When I was a Lux dealer we tried it out and hands downtown was one of the best integrated amps of the time. I finally decided to pullone from stock for a long term test only to find all were gone while none sold. I discovered it was a favorite of some of my employees who had an unknown to be me profit sharing plan going.
windchaser
Active Member
I have had quite a few over the years but the 6900 is one of my favorites....plenty of power and an excellent onboard phono section.
windchaser
Active Member
I'm pretty darn fond of my Luxman L-100...
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+1 - Very nice setup !!!
GD70
Lunatic Member
I have had quite a few over the years but the 6900 is one of my favorites....plenty of power and an excellent onboard phono section.
That's very nice!
BTW- what's the iPod dock & little box next to it?
GD70
Lunatic Member
+2! I love the retro 50's look!
Boto
Curmudgeon In Training
I haven't had too many, but I still have me A-5 that I bought new in 1977. It still works great. These definitely flew under the radar a bit. I'm also a fan of my Philips FA-960. Bought that new in 1990 and it is still my main systems' anchor.
windchaser
Active Member
Thanks ! The iPod is sitting in a Wadia iPod dock that was the first to be able to extract the pure digital bitstream directly from the iPod and feed it independently to a standalone DAC (in my system a Monarchy DAC pictured below the Mac. 6900) and it thus bypasses the cheap built in DAC of the iPod.
If you load all lossless content onto your iPod it basically becomes a transport with this setup and the quality is as good as a mid-level CDP. The little box next to it is a separate power supply made by Channel Island especially for the Wadia iPod dock – as a system it all works very well for what it is…..
