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Where to find Bogen receiver from early 70s?

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davodavo

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OK, so you would never accuse this of being a post on high-performance audio, but for reasons that defy explanation I'm looking for a Bogen DB240 receiver, which has been nominated in AudioKarma discussions as one of the worst pieces of gear ever.
Maybe it is. I'm trying to find out if it's true.
Looking for one or more, working or not. Suspect that I'll need to cannibalize to bring it to life.
Sources??? I'm not interested in paying eBay prices ($125 plus shipping for a dead one).
Thanks for any hints you can provide.
 
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curious why its considered a terrible piece. I know nothing about this one at all, but Bogen stuff was generally pretty competently engineered, even if not all of it looked all that great.
 
Well, I owned a couple of their other receivers from around this time (BR360, etc.) and they made some very strange choices that made them quite unreliable (they fry the output and driver transistors waaaaay too easily), the switches used oxidized really fast which made channels cut out all the time. Bogen was a great firm until they got acquired by LSI, one of those big conglomerates that cared more about Wall Street than customers.
 
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