Top 5 recievers of the 70's and 80's ????

I'm with Starcon.

Albert, you missed Starcon and me.

I agree - they were great value. I was working for a Yamaha dealer during those days as well, at night and weekends during high school and college and it was a regular sale.

Further to a clear conscience, my only difficulty was a customer who decided after several demos and lots of praise for the Yamaha receivers that yes, he would go with my suggestion and in fact would stretch for the top of the line, monster Yamaha receiver 2020 (?) 2040 (?) a model which we had never sold.

This was all very happy and exciting until the last minute - on the morning we had agreed for him to pick up the system, he decided he just had to have a pair of Dahlquist DQ10's - our "reference" demo speakers - instead of Polks or something.

Nearly 30 years later, I can still recall feeling a little funny connecting DQ10's to a receiver in his apartment, but I thought it would have been worse to suggest that our flagship powerhouse receiver might not power them adequately.

So I hope those old Yamahas were in fact so good that he got many years of enjoyment out of the Dahlquists!

Concept 16.5 - not drinking the Kool Aid.

Not to doubt your observations, but looks like a rebadged, private label type product.

I stand by the Yamahas.

To me, there is a certain integrity that comes with designing and branding something from the ground up.

Like modified or garage manufactured cars, I am not so moved by the fact that some quirky English car, which starts with a Lotus chassis or whatever, in the end actually outhandles and outaccelerates a Ferrari for 1/4th the price.

I'll take the Ferrari. And a Yamaha receiver.

If you would like to just debate performance, rather than the complete package including functionality and design, we should also discuss the Tandberg receiver and the McIntosh receiver of that era.