يحاول ذهب - حر
T+A R 2500 R MULTISOURCE RECEIVER
August 2024
|Stereophile
The hi-fi receiver has been many different things.
Early examples, like the Harman Kardon "Stereo Festival" TA-230 from 1958 (said by modern-day Harman/ Samsung to be the first stereo receiver¹), featured separate FM and AM monophonic tuners that could assign a speaker to each if you wanted to listen to what was then a fad: stereo broadcasts over two stations (left channel over FM, right over AM, for instance). Standardized FM stereo broadcasting began in 1961, and by then, receivers had evolved into large, complex, nearly complete stereo systems; an example of that was the Fisher 800.2
By the 1970s, the focus of receiver development and manufacturing had shifted to Japan. The era of features-laden "Silverface" receivers peaked with the massive Technics SA-1000.3 That behemoth was just over 2' wide, nearly 2' deep, about 7.5" tall, and weighed 87lb. It was capable of 330Wpc into either 4 or 8 ohms, and its linear power supply sported four specially made 18,000μF filter capacitors. Among its many innovative features were LED level meters (the newest thing in 1977) and a parametric midrange control. Technics claimed a frequency range of 5Hz to 91kHz and a signal/noise ratio of 115dB, A-weighted. In short, the SA-1000 was the king of the Silverface mountain.
The point of a receiver has always been to combine as many music-listening sources in a single chassis as possible-with preamp functions and amplification. Back in analog days, that meant on-board FM and usually AM; a phono preamp (sometimes two); occasionally a tape-head preamp; full input switching, volume control, and tone controls, akin to what you'd find in a standalone preamplifier; and a power amplifier, often with outputs for two sets of speakers. Back then, buyers brought a "record player" (turntable, tonearm, and cartridge-sometimes a record-wrecking changer) and maybe a tape machine to the party, plus speakers. All other sources and functions were in the receiver.
هذه القصة من طبعة August 2024 من Stereophile.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
المزيد من القصص من Stereophile
Stereophile
Buzz Me In
If you like 1970s rock music, particularly hard rock music, something you love was recorded or mixed in a Record Plant studio.
3 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
NuPrime MCX-800AD
IMMERSIVE AUDIO PROCESSOR
11 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
Shanachie Records
The term 'sales' is an anachronism. Today, it's about streaming and ancillary income.\"
3 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
Advance Paris X-CD9
CD PLAYER
11 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
T+A Symphonia for phono; a new NAD M10
Out of the box, the T+A Symphonia streaming integrated amplifier Rogier van Bakel reviewed in the November 2025 issue¹ has two pairs of single-ended analog line inputs.
20 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
Why the Music We Love Feels Different Now
There's a scene in the 2002 movie The Pianist in which Adrien Brody's character, the Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, is hiding in the ruins of a Warsaw villa.
3 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
A tale of two Walters
Acommon theme in this space in Stereophile is the need to reach new audiences and generate broader interest in the hi-fi hobby.
3 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
Eversolo Play CD Edition
ALL-IN-ONE STREAMING PLAYER
12 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
Timeless flights
How many adventurous rock’n’roll bands forged in the late-’60s/early-’70s would have been left by the wayside—or relegated to languish in perpetual cutout-bin purgatory—had it not been for the wide-open programming M.O. of stereo-loving FM radio stations? The Moody Blues could very easily have been one of those sidelined, notched-cover footnotes, but they altered their gameplan when guitarist/vocalist Justin Hayward and bassist/vocalist John Lodge joined the fold a few years after the chart success of “Go Now” in 1964.¹
3 mins
January 2026
Stereophile
You still believe in me
One of my foundational memories of becoming an audiophile was waiting to listen to a pair of speakers at Sound by Singer in Manhattan.
12 mins
January 2026
Listen
Translate
Change font size
