I can’t believe how simple they are under the chassis!!!! 🤩

There is a warmth to tube amps that can't be denied. I doubted this until after I heard an a/b of two Luxman amps in the late 1970s, one solid state, the other tube. The tube amp did indeed sound warmer, the SS more clinical, for lack of a better word. That said, I could have been happy with either one.

The Pioneer SM-B200A receiver from the late 1950s had the same speaker configuration. My dad bought his new and I inherited it in the mid 70s. What a wonderful tone it had. I still own 2 Sansui 9090DB receivers that I've had since 1980 and they were used then. They sound great with a set of early 70s JBL L-100a enclosures.

Nice piece of hifi kit you have there. I have an 800B bought back in 86 for the princely sum of 85-bucks plus tax. Nobody wanted these things back then and the shop must have had about ten pieces of Fisher tube gear. I hauled that receiver all over the place in the early years of my career and loved it. Built like a tank and sounds like a dream. After years of gathering parts I just got it back from the shop with a full restoration. And it may be the last piece of almplification gear I ever get. One of the things I have noticed is that I now hear all sorts of mouth noises coming from poorly miked youtube programs - yours excluded. Hook it up to your Heresys and have a blast. Nice amp and thanks for putting this program together.

My first unit was a fisher 400 receiver in 1964. I then switched ro Dynaco Stereo 70 and PAS Prreamp and a Fisher X 101 Tuner. In 1967 I got a used Mackintosh MR 71. Eventually I switched to transistor gear but returned to tubes. Eventually I settled with NAD gear. I miss the old Fishers. I could not keep the gear because being short on cash I would trade it at Audio Exchange and then at Stereo exchange both in NYC. Presently I returned to my Audible Illusions preamp and ADCOM amp. I could go on and on. As for tuner I have used many. Most of my "radio listening" I use the internet. Very interesting post. Thanks

I have a Fisher 202b. It’s great sounding. With Fisher 7591 (the output tube number) tube amplifiers you get a beautiful non-fatigue inducing sound quality. That said; don’t expect to play these amplifiers loudly. They loose bass at higher volumes. At normal volume levels I find the sound wonderful.

This model is on my wish list

Bought a Fisher KX-200 from a neighbor for $25 in the 80's. Still have it, all original, and it sounds great! I understand the 7195 tubes are now worth nearly $100/apiece, and the amp has four of them. CD's, or any digital music source, sound superb going through it!

Besides the warmth, the other thing that tube amps do amazingly well is openness and space between the instruments on a front to back plane. With much solid state you can't hear that much space between the instruments, front to back. Also if driven into clipping, tube amps clip more gracefully, not likely to produce as sharp a clip waveform as solid state, and they are less likely to ruin your speakers. That's Big. It's amusing how some people are put off on tubes, because they think they will keep burning out. In reality, vintage NOS tubes usually last a real long time. Not only that, but they often don't reach their peak sound till after around 1,000 hours of play time.. My NOS Sylvania Black Plates from the 1950s are nearing the 300 hour mark. More depth than NOS 1950s Mullards, and they have a very beautiful lush sound to boot. I can't picture how they could sound any better, but they'll be around the 1,000 hour mark of play time by next years Xmas, and I will probably know how they can sound better then. The Citation II tube amp and the little Dynaco ST 35 tube amp are two of the best tube amps from the early 1960s. Surprising how much less money they get on the used market, being in the same class sonically as Marantz. The Dynaco ST 35 power amp, (sonically better than the more powerful ST 70 ), mainly because of more advanced and better transformers, is beginning to becoming known as one of the classic tube amps of all time. It just does everything right. What more can you want? The Marantz 9s continue to fetch real big money on the used market when one appears.

A friend's dad had a similar amp from that era, plus a matching tuner. His amp had no tone controls. This man also had an AR TT and AR bookshelf speakers. He bought it just after his den was finished, which was an addition to the home, and that's where the system went. Years later, his son (my friend) traded the amp and tuner it in for a solid state receiver, not caring if it was a vintage collector's piece of hif or not.

My first 3 vintage pieces were tube receivers, a Fisher 500c, Fisher 400, and a Scott 340B. I still own the 500c and 400. I still think they sound great. And yes, they definitely needed to be serviced and a few tubes replaced.

Cant wait to hear tubes in a good setup ( hasnt happened yet ), I have a few cap coupled units that i hear sounds more "Tube Like" before they moved to DC Coupled. Although inferior cap coupled amps sound so good so I can only assume tubes will sound even better. Im currently listening to a fully restored "The Fisher" 202 thats from 71 and is cap coupled.. Such a smooth sounding unit even if Hitachi built ( still a Fisher Design ).

4:50 Harden Carmen, that's funny ^^

Every thing looks so awesome and I would love to hear the system playing in my home great package gear love to win it all !!!! ❤

She's a beauty Scott, as I'm enamored with early-mid 60's tube equipment as well in my several H.H. Scott models. And I learned something new of the purpose of the REVERSE mode with respect to orchestral imaging and always thought of it as unnecessary by simply rewiring left/right at the speakers. Also, I have read in Scott documentation the center speaker could be used to fill in the 'hole' in imaging when the left/right speakers were separated by great distances in the room.

Very nice piece! Your gear always looks phenomenal. It’s an interesting time because that piece would be around $2500 based on the inflation calculator. Not necessarily out of a lot of peoples reach. I was 8 years old at the time. I remember my parent didn’t have that kind of discretionary income. We had a Dumont TV with about a 10” screen they bought at a 2nd store. Def different times.

Cntr Channel is for a third speaker. L+R L-R. It will reveal some of what was lost due to recording phase cancellation issues. cool effect but not loud enough to use on its own. H H Scott had these. You might find more info there.

I have a Fisher 400 tube receiver. The only problem with it is its weight. I like to switch things in and out and because it is so big and heavy I rarely use it anymore.

Since stereo was fairly new I have a feeling they counted every input individually rather than a pair. 7 Channel A inputs + 7 Channel B inputs = 14 inputs.