Harry Devine - 01/25/2018 Feeding into my SA200L is a Technics 1200GR, with Ortofon 2m Black, via a Graham Slee Gram Amp 2SE phono pre amp (with upgraded power supply). Output from the SA200L is to a pair of original cabinet Wharfedale E50s with new KEF drivers. The sound blows all my other modern stuff out of the water. Crystal clear. Low THD as you will know. Clarity is simply awesome. Love it. 25WPC????... who cares,? the E50s are 96db sensitivity and wow, 25 seems like much much more. |
william west - 07/22/2017 i have my technics sa200 hooked to polk bookshelf speakers tsx220b and the sound is fantastic |
Lou Linde - 06/30/2015 I have a Technics SA200 paired with Bose 901 Series III speakers 40 years old... awesome... even at this ripe old age. Had to refoam all 18 speakers in the 901\'s, but never had to do maintenance on my SA200. The low 25 WPC and very low THD are keys to the high quality sound, not forgetting to mention a great vintage 901 series. |
Dave Maher - 05/15/2013 I have owned an SA-200 since 1979 connected to two Bose 301 speakers, older ones with a nice woofer and a tweeter with a little thing to kind of direct the tweeter output. My high school physics teacher explained about quality of output, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), being more important than watts per channel. He was right. A modest watts per channel with low THD is way cleaner and enjoyable to listen to compared to, say, 100 watts per channel at 1% THD.
Although this model is "only" 25 watts per channel, the THD is like 0.04%, ridiculously low. The sound is so clean. Raise the volume and the quality remains, no distortion that I can hear. I have tried matching the SA-200 with other speakers, but nothing seems to beat the combination of the SA-200 and Bose 301's.
I recently lost one channel in my SA-200 and my stereo expert said to look for a new one. I was patient and found a nice used one on the Internet. But I will not get rid of the damaged one, even with only one working channel. Proud owner of an SA-200! |
colin bell - 07/25/2010 I owned a pristine SA-200 and it was such a lovely piece to have and the sounds was just lovely.
Its did not seem to distort at all once the volume was increased, use this with good quality speakers and it is sublime. |
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