A 1060 integrated amp rescue any good?

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hwystar

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Found this in a pile of junk at a garage sale. they sold the whole pile for 2 bucks. It really looked bad. The junk pile consisted of a couple of cable converter boxes, a ford radio an Emerson VCR. At the bottom of the pile was this Yamaha. It all was pretty dirty like it was stored in a barn or something. The amp is missing a foot and 2 knobs and has a little rust and what not but after a cleaning up of the inside I hooked it up for a test and guess what it works.:banana:

Cosmetically this thing is not so great but its not that bad either and it works 100%.

What kind of quality is this amp? I can't find much info about it. I am thinking of replacing one of my vintage Pioneer receivers( SX 750 or 3700) with it. BTW it doesn't hurt that I also have a yammy tuner and cassette deck that will go with the amp, the CT 610 and K 960.
 
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I have an A-760 and it's nothing to sneeze at.

This?

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Essentially an A-8 ...



150W per channel, 100KHz Bandwidth ...
 
That A760 looks just like my A 1060, I guess the power rating is about the only difference. It sounds pretty good but its only connected to some test speakers now, have yet to connect it to my main speakers. This thing is rated at 140 wpc. Lots more than the 45 watt pioneer I'll be replacing.
 
Oh I could not make out the number in the photo. It should look just like that one then. Only mine has the two missing knobs, The face has some discoloring like something liquid hit it and left spots, and the volume knob has some staining that hasn't come off yet. Thanks.
 
phono selector switch?

I have a question about this amp's phono section. I don't know what all of this means. There are 2 phono inputs MM and MC. Also there is a switch with 2 settings for MC and 4 settings for MM. What the ____? I've never had a receiver or amp with all of this.
 
MC is moving coil, MM is moving magnet. MM is the more common type, MC is the type that's more expensive and usually requires greater gain in the Phono amp section. The individual settings are for matching the impedance of the cartridge. Unless you've something unusual, I'd leave it at MM and 47kOhm.

Did you click on the 2nd image I posted earlier?
 
Thanks for the info. No I didn't click that image. Cool! The Japanese to English translation is a little hard to follow along with the over my head tech talk. but how about .003 % THD. Impressive.
 
Very interesting. In looks, features and specs, it's verrrry similar to the Pioneer A80 integrated from the same period, but weighs 10 lbs less than the Pio. Prolly due to this:

The power of X has the power to adopt. This is a control device in exchange for TRIAC comparator and reference voltage to control the conduction phase angle of the voltage waveform applied to the primary power transformer, precisely as needed to match the dynamic range of music has become a power structure at high speed.
In the conventional power supply while it also provides a constant voltage output stage of the main amplifier was impossible to get a bass amp with better regulation.
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The Triac control allows for the use of a smaller power transformer, apparently. But, is the 150Wpc continuous RMS power (they call it effective output). :scratch2: No matter, for $2, you stole an impressive amp...
 
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