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Sony TA E 77 ES Preamplificatore
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Di cosa si tratta |
Preamplificatore |
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Produttore |
Sony |
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Caratteristiche |
Telecomando - entrata phono |
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Costo |
1.630.000 lire anno 1990 circa |
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Dal web:
Not counting the big league ESPRIT preamplifiers, the TA-E77ESD was Sony's first preamp since the late 1970s' TA-E7B or TA-E88B. And there never was an ES preamplifier/amplifier combo in Japan, before the 77 combo... or after. The E77ESD is the companion to the TA-N77ES pôwerhouse. Feeding everybody is a large toroidal transformer -seemingly the same as in the contemporary TA-N55ES and the european TA-N80ES- plus a small transformer for the logic circuits. Multiple windings feed separately the digital and analog sections, all separated by copper bus bars and a very clean main board. Naturally, the E77ESD rests on a G chassis. The
E77ESD was Sony's equivalent of Denon's
DAP-5500 - better looking, though.
Made to accept the sources which, then, were starting to offer digital
outputs: CD, DAT, ED Beta and Laserdisc. But that wasn't much to justify a
dedicated preamp, considering that DAT never made it and Sony's politics
toward Laserdisc were -even then- rather discrete. Mostly, the evolution
of digital chips was then still raging and that made for the included d/a
converters quick "obsolescence". However, unlike Denon's units, the
TA-E77ESD sold extremely well worldwide ! Available as well, but quite discreetely and only in the north-American market as a TA-E77ES, sans "D" : doing away with the S-Video i/o terminals and all digital circuitry but retaining the composite video i/os. Very very rare version of which I unfortunately have not a single image. The
TA-E77ESD was replaced by the strictly analog
TA-E80ES in 1990 ; the latter
borrowed some of its panel functions and layout but the structure and
internal design were very different. The TA-E80ES went on the be just as
successful as its elder, although the USA strangely started to greet Sony's
high-end units with marked indifference... In Europe, however, there are
as many E77ESDs as E80ESs - and that total makes plenty.
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