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Boing Boom Tschak
I know I've posted something about this elsewhere, but in 1978 I walked into my local audio store and the owner (sadly, now deceased) knew I was an admirer of Yamaha's amps (I owned a CA-810 at the time…and STILL have it), he was just cueing up an album and I saw this black amp with 3 square colored lights and a volume control, he turned the volume up to the mid-point, selected the DISC switch and let the dampened needle drop (playing into ADS L-910s on their stands). He said "…have a listen to this, I think you'll like it…". It was a sonic revelation to me, and although my then-college bank account wouldn't permit purchasing that Yamaha A-1 amp and speaker combination, I hoped that one day I would.
I took a copy of the A-1/T-1 sales literature (still have that too), and 30 years later I was able to finally acquire that combination. AKer Echowars did some excellent restoration and replacement work in the amp and it sings sweetly today. I really like the external design simplicity, but inside it can be a rather temperamental amp at times with some near unobtainium components (so I've kept some spare donor units in stock, just in case!).
It's quite an amp.
I took a copy of the A-1/T-1 sales literature (still have that too), and 30 years later I was able to finally acquire that combination. AKer Echowars did some excellent restoration and replacement work in the amp and it sings sweetly today. I really like the external design simplicity, but inside it can be a rather temperamental amp at times with some near unobtainium components (so I've kept some spare donor units in stock, just in case!).
It's quite an amp.
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