Pioneer House Sound from the 70s

Sure there probably were some bad sounding products put out in the 1970s, but there were also some very good sounding products too. I'm thinking Luxman, Sansui, Kenwood, some Sonys, Yamaha, Hitachi (mosfets only), Marantz, Pioneer, Nikko and even some Toshibas are highly functional and decent sounding units. You can find these units for under $100 in any urban area. If you want to go crazy spend another $200-300 and have them recapped and aligned. Now pair them with an appropriately easy speaker load and while you won't get 21st century audiophile approved sound, you will get something quite listenable.

BTW, the tuner section on some of the receivers are better than all but the best modern designs.

Good point 61.The Golden Age of tuners you betcha,in a receiver or stand-alone.Just funning Tvad.My service went from 8-67-3-70.....got some nice Sansui stuff in Nam....cheers,Bob

I agree with Onhwy61. Some products sounded better than others not only within brands, but within models in a given brand and it isn't any different than it is today. The lower powered amplifiers usually sound better due to simpler designs and fewer parts count. System matching is as critical as ever and the '70s amplifiers were intended to be used with efficient speakers quite often using Alnico magnets.

The audio shop in my town has a lot of restored vintage equipment. Please send me an email if interested and I'll put you in touch with them.

this was also the period of the power race. most watts for a receiver.