If I Had A Million Dollars

[JoeThePop]

Well $3,000 anyway. And If I were looking for an integrated amplifier; I'm not.
This would be on the top of my list if for no other reason than I find it beautiful.

JBL Launches Time Machine at HARMAN ExPLORE: Introduces 75th Anniversary JBL SA750 Integrated Amplifier

NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, January 7TH, 2021 — If the walls of JBL’s storied Northridge, CA design center could talk, they’d sing the accolades of 75 years of pioneering acoustic, transducer and electronic design. They might also speak to the impact of...

news.harman.com

 

[JohnVF]

Well $3,000 anyway. And If I were looking for an integrated amplifier; I'm not.
This would be on the top of my list if for no other reason than I find it beautiful.

JBL Launches Time Machine at HARMAN ExPLORE: Introduces 75th Anniversary JBL SA750 Integrated Amplifier

NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, January 7TH, 2021 — If the walls of JBL’s storied Northridge, CA design center could talk, they’d sing the accolades of 75 years of pioneering acoustic, transducer and electronic design. They might also speak to the impact of...

news.harman.com

I want!

 

[JoeThePop]

I want!

Isn't it beautiful? I'm a big fan of industrial design. Things should not only be useful, they should be beautiful.

 

[Thermionics]

What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is 'Class G'?

 

[airdronian]

What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is 'Class G'?

From the Harman info:

This Class G design provides impeccable sound quality and efficiency operating as a Class A amplifier for low-level signals and switching in an additional power supply for large transients and dynamic waveforms. The result is incredible detail and accuracy at low levels, low crossover distortion, and high-current capability for extreme power demands.

Personally, I like the side panel detail but the rest is kind of meh for me.

 

[Thermionics]

I keep misreading 'Streaming' as 'Screaming' in the photo on the news.harman.com page.

 

[prime minister]

Super cool. I'd love that.

 

[Rudy]

Luxman's recent products are also nicely designed. Even if it's only for the analog meters on the front. 😉

 

[mhardy6647]

The new JBL thingy is -- bless their hearts -- a fairly, umm, high fidelity evocation of the JBL SA600
of the mid 1960s.





https://worldradiohistory.com/Archi...iFI-Stereo/60s/HiFi-Stereo-Review-1968-01.pdf (pg. 116 of the magazine)

Julian Hirsch tested the SA600 in 1966, if anyone's interested.
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archi...iFI-Stereo/60s/HiFi-Stereo-Review-1966-11.pdf (pg. 36 of the magazine)

 

[mhardy6647]

From the Harman info:

This Class G design provides impeccable sound quality and efficiency operating as a Class A amplifier for low-level signals and switching in an additional power supply for large transients and dynamic waveforms. The result is incredible detail and accuracy at low levels, low crossover distortion, and high-current capability for extreme power demands.

Personally, I like the side panel detail but the rest is kind of meh for me.

Class G = two sets DC"HV" rails, regular and super-size.
Pioneered (ahem?) Popularized by Hitachi in the late 1970s.

HitachiSR2004 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Soundcraftsmen Class H was sort of similar, but with a more "active" adjustability in power supply parameters.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Audio/80s/Audio-1986-Equipment-Directory.pdf (multipage ad section)

 

[airdronian]

What's old is new again.

 

[mhardy6647]

What's old is new again.

Or, as someone else once put it

...[T]here is nothing new under the sun.

Eccl. 1:9b