Early 80's - late 70's best audio products

I nominate the Advent 300 receiver. What a great piece of kit! Small in size, modest in power (15w/ch), sensible in features, and big on performance.

It has an excellent phono stage designed by Holman and a FM tuner section which stressed noise rejection over sensitivity. Styling is retro-cool.
A properly operating Advent 300 sounds musical. We all fantasise about what we want but Henry Kloss and Advent Corp. knew what we needed.

advent and jbl loudspeakers. different, but both helped an entire generation to rock and roll affordably. also, pretty much all classic rock of the era was mixed using the jbl's.

Yamaha CR series of receivers, Yamaha MX1000U + MX10000U amps, Yamaha CX1000U + CX10000U preamps, some of the McIntosh amps + preamps -- the late 70's equipment, a lot of the Marantz products, a lot of the JBL speakers.

Luxman: Ultimate Series = best-of-that-era.
Onkyo Grand Integra series: seriously excellent.
Duntec: their amazing Sovereign speakers.

Beveridge 2SW loudspeakers
Yamaha B2 Power Amp
Theta tube preamp