Yamaha b-2 lux original or No?

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Efgen

New Member

• Nov 15, 2012

• #1

Hello for all Yamaha audio lovers!
I want to buy amplifier Yamaha B-2

The seller said, that wooden laths are distinguisher of lux model, but I had never seen B-2 with them. This amplifier had been imported from Japan.
Is there this option in it or have former owner did it?

 

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jaguar06

Super Member

• Nov 15, 2012

• #2

Whether it's factory or not, it's a beautiful piece. Looks like bubinga wood.

 

Vint Age

B-1 With Yamaha

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• Nov 15, 2012

• #3

Efgen said:

Hello for all Yamaha audio lovers!
I want to buy amplifier Yamaha B-2

The seller said, that wooden laths are distinguisher of lux model, but I had never seen B-2 with them. This amplifier had been imported from Japan.
Is there this option in it or have former owner did it?

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Wow - Very nice! :thmbsp:

I've never heard of a lux model ...

 

Ths364

Super Member

• Nov 15, 2012

• #4

Looks like Cocobolo panels! Nice!

 

avionic

" Black Knights "------- F-15 " Wizard "

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• Nov 15, 2012

• #5

Ths364 said:

Looks like Cocobolo panels! Nice!

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Coca-cola...? OEM or not-It looks great..:thmbsp:

 

Oilmaster

Sonycus Peritum

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• Nov 15, 2012

• #6

Arrrrgh, a B-2 with wooden panels. HORROR. :twak:
Whoever did that should go to prison.
Biggest vintage insult ever.
It's ''deported'' from Japan.

Yes, do buy it, and set it free ! Use the wood for winter times.

 

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jeffe

Super Member

• Nov 15, 2012

• #7

WOW! Those side panels looks great! I can see them on a C-2A and T-2 as well... :scratch2:

 

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jaguar06

Super Member

• Nov 15, 2012

• #8

Oilmaster said:

...Whoever did that should go to prison.
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And here I was thinking maybe I shoulda built nice sides for all my MX-1000s and CX-1000s rather than build a fence out of all that bubinga a friend in LA gave me. (Found myself wondering last night if it'd clean up well enough to repurpose.) Won't happen. Not that I want to avoid an orange jump suit, but rather that I'm too lazy.

 

bob06

Addicted Member

• Nov 15, 2012

• #9

I like it. JMO. :yes:

 

Oilmaster

Sonycus Peritum

Subscriber

• Nov 16, 2012

• #10

Of course everybody is free to do (or like) whatever with any kind of audio gear; there are just too few B-2 around for such a piece of audio heritage that I prefer to see them as their creator meant it.

I love black Sony ES series with wooden sides, but Yamaha deliberately designed the B-series as all-square black metallic technology as a firm modernity design statement. Putting wooden sides on it is a (virtual) insult to the intended design statement, not understanding/recognising what this design and technology is all about. But, whatever one likes, I guess.