Whatever Happened To SAE?


I remember in the seventies walking into a Cal Stereo store in the LA area and seeing the SAE equipment. I was a college student back then and owned a reciever. The SAE stuff with it's black metal and white graphics looked sooo imposing and impressive. Amp, preamp, tuner and EQ all in one stack....man, if I could ever own something like that one day! By the time I could afford decent equipment, SAE has been long gone.

Was their stuff any good?

What happened to them?

thanks.......mitch
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Yes, and that big color organ in the Dimensions in Stereo back room. Mighty cool.
I had a SAE integrated (remember the "U" design, as well as their two parametrics eqs and finally the big 400 watts, ornage VU meter power amp.

I recall not-a-bad sounding gear from SAE, were well built and had a high re-sale factor.

It would be great to assamble a SAE rack for the office... hmmm.

Fernando
I went from Phase Linier to all SAE?Ininity Quantum in high school.Still have the "digital" tuner.
I remember SAE well...Friend of mine had a full rack setup and I went to the Pioneer Rack setup..still have all my Pioneer stuff..I have a few SAE..5000a pop and click,4000 crossover,4200 speaker switch box...SAE was cool stuff and really put on a light show..
Some of the principals that were managing SAE now build ATI amps.

http://www.ati-amp.com/