Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Cycling this one from the collection, it has not been powered on for a year.
And it’s operating and performing just as it did after I completely cleaned it out upon purchase from a church sale.
This one is completely original, including all bulbs and capacitors. Next to no hours based on my assessment and it just needed a general cleaning. I usually can tell by looking at char marks around the power supply voltage regulators and capacitors. Those often are the first parts needing to be replaced, and these are pristine.
Anyways, it’s getting a six hour respectful workout tonight playing a variety of music and it feels like 50 watts per channel, but has a face value of 35 watts. It’s pushing my HPM-100 speakers aggressively.
There are a lot of these receivers from this model line on YouTube and for sale on eBay, which indicates that they hold up well and were kept. Just like the silver monsters which appeared a year later, there’s hundreds of thousands of them out there. Every week new vintage receivers continue to pop up everywhere, they are found at garage sales, estate sales, Facebook Marketplace, barn finds and in damp moldy basements.
So there’s no shortage of supply, but prices keep going up.
Welcome to summer everyone!
Cycling this one from the collection, it has not been powered on for a year.
And it’s operating and performing just as it did after I completely cleaned it out upon purchase from a church sale.
This one is completely original, including all bulbs and capacitors. Next to no hours based on my assessment and it just needed a general cleaning. I usually can tell by looking at char marks around the power supply voltage regulators and capacitors. Those often are the first parts needing to be replaced, and these are pristine.
Anyways, it’s getting a six hour respectful workout tonight playing a variety of music and it feels like 50 watts per channel, but has a face value of 35 watts. It’s pushing my HPM-100 speakers aggressively.
There are a lot of these receivers from this model line on YouTube and for sale on eBay, which indicates that they hold up well and were kept. Just like the silver monsters which appeared a year later, there’s hundreds of thousands of them out there. Every week new vintage receivers continue to pop up everywhere, they are found at garage sales, estate sales, Facebook Marketplace, barn finds and in damp moldy basements.
So there’s no shortage of supply, but prices keep going up.
Welcome to summer everyone!
