OT: Anyone remember this vintage audio amp?

Pretty vague.

There were probably other companies but Yamaha had several in the "Natural Sound" series (that name is probably generic) that had motor driven mechanical remote-controled volume controls.

They also were lopsided with weight balance.

"produced _the_ most outstanding sound quality" is subjective and could apply to 1000's of receivers along with the power rating.

Thats the best I can come up with.

-bruce snipped-for-privacy@ripco.com

Well, most receivers and separate amplifiers of the 90s through the 2000s w ere black, so that's not much help...

All receivers/amplifiers from that era had a 50/60hz power transformer, whi ch meant weight. Every one I've ever worked on had the transformer mounted on one side, so any receiver of that era would list one way or the other.

There were several receivers/amplifiers that were remote controlled had the same feature. I remember some Sonys, Luxmans,

What pops in my head is Yamaha or Denon. They made a lot of relatively low ered powered receivers and amps during those years, and they sounded pretty good, but I don't recall any real standouts in sound quality in the typica l consumer level of components. The Luxman would be the best sounding I gue ss but they were more money. I wonder if the sound you remember was more a function of the speakers you used with the amp, not the amp itself.

But I've seen a Sonys, Pioneers, JVC, Technics, Onkyo, etc. with all black cabinets, heavy on one side, and a probably a red LED in the motorized volu me control.

I still have my JVC amp/receiver/cassette with rotating & flashing volume control. But clearly not the same as your recollection!

Mike.

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From sci.electronics.design:

** Might it be a Proton AM30 or similar ??

Lotsa weight on LH side, 80wpc, all black, simple, very good specs and almost a top name brand.

.... Phil

JVC certainly rings a bell... But this was only an amplifier.

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And on the one I had, the LED was a different colour (green IIRC).

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got to be a Pioneer shirley? They made some massive knobs with lights that wekt around but usually never in black.

Crown had made some low THD amps back in the 80's I had a summer gig at Picker, that used them to test position transducers.

Cheers

Any other pointless reminiscences you'd care to share?

• Up to this point, that reminds me of a Sansui system i had ages ago.

• Now major description departure; sorry.

No, it wasn't Sansui nor Sanyo nor Sharp nor Pioneer nor Proton as Phil suggested, none of those nor any of the earlier ones in the thread people said it might be. I guess I'll probably never know now it's just too long ago. :(

Thanks for trying to assist, anyway guys.

google imagines for japanese amp doesn't get you anything?

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** Might as well Google "cat" and select images in order to find your missing one.

.... Phil

Er, no........

Marantz?

Do a google for "Hifi year book", and start reading from the mid eighties.

Various publications online

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Adrian C

Our amplifier at home has that feature, and it's black. but my memory is the volume knob is big. We bought it about 1993 or so. I assume that many amplifiers have an LED feature like that.

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OK, thanks to everyone who responded. I'd thought that volume feature would be unique to one manufacturer to be honest - I've never seen it on any other amp. I think now someone mentioned JVC and that *does* ring a bell. It's just that I'd never equated JVC with the best of the amps of that era. Looks like I may have to review my prejudices. The search goes on...

If it was head and shoulders better than all the rest, It was probably a Nakamichi. mine has that light feature you mention, though you may be concertinaing time. It is quite a bit newer than you remember

That's not a terrible idea, but, I would try searching Ebay and zip through several hundred pictures of amplifiers, one might pop out at you. Mikek