Your Favorite Japanese Audio Equipment?

[DasguteOhr]

I forget a dream preamp sony ta-er1 amazing phono mc (tango sut?)and albs rk volume pot( 900€)only 100 made.

 

[XV-1]

something old, something new. Pioneer Exclusive & Lyra

 

[DasguteOhr]

something old, something new. Pioneer Exclusive & Lyra

Phantastic old machine pioneer

sorry i'm more olympos fanboy,sounds smoother to me, a bit more feeling for the music. Have fun with your atlas

 

[Kawero]

Y/S amplifiers. The only SS brand I would ever consider.

I think Y/S is HongKong made

 

[kimurastanley]

I think Y/S is HongKong made

I think he means YS Sound, and not YS audio which is a Hong Kong brand.

 

[AMR / iFi audio]

I think I have forgotten about the Phasemation, they make excellent phono cartridges. The PP-200 is one of my favourites.

 

[gleeds]

So many devices past and present!

While I have a few favorite Sansui pieces, for high-end past, the Sony Ta-e88 pre-amplifier. Battleship build and parts quality with a great adjustable MC phono stage. This was designed as Sony's answer to the Mark Levinson's assault on solid state pre-amplifiers in the 70's.

For the present, Takasuki's TA-S01 300B SE integrated amplifier is the one! Beside being a work of art, the sound I experienced when played through a modest set of Blumenhofer horns was some of the best I have heard regardless of price. The Tak is offered in the US through the good men at Alex Sound.

 

[audioblazer]

Yamaha GT 2000X with Saec 407/GT . Fantastic Performance to Price Ratio

 

[Argonaut]

So many devices past and present!

While I have a few favorite Sansui pieces, for high-end past,

I had a bit of a vintage Sansui habit that got out of hand at one time

 

[gleeds]

I had a bit of a vintage Sansui habit that got out of hand somewhat

Cool stuff

 

[dcc]

TAD, Phasemation, CS Port and Elpispandora

 

[Don_Camillo]

- Turntables: Denon DP-100M, DP-80, DP-7000, DP-6000, JVC/ Victor TT-101, TT-81, Technics SP-10 MK3, SP-10 MK2a, SP-15, Pioneer/ Exclusive P3a, P-3, P-10, PL-70, PL-70LII, PL-50LII, Onkyo PX-100M, SONY TTS-8000, TEAC TN-400 Magnefloat ...
- Tonearms: Toyo, Ultracraft/ Audiocraft, Ortofon RMG-309i, RMG-212i, Ikeda IT-407, Fidelity Research FR-64/66, Micro Seiki MA-505 & MAX-283, Technics EPA-100, EPA-250/500
- Phono Cartridges: Supex, Fidelity Research, ??/ Koetsu, Dynavector, Ikeada, Myabi, Kiseki, Acutex, Technics, Audio Technica, Highphonic, entré, Glanz
- Gear (Transformers, OPTs, SUTs): Tango, Tamura/ TAM Radio, SANSUI, Hashimoto

 

[Birdwatcher]

Should we mention all we know, or just our favorites?? ;-)

 

[Rensselaer]

I appreciate my Phasemation PP-2000 MC cartridge and (although too expensive) my T-2000 SUT's.

 

[mtemur]

Kondo. Everything else is second tier in comparison

+1

 

[the.dan]

I love the build quality and attention to detail that Luxman puts into its products