Karl you are a genius! Love your channel!

I had a C-1 in the 1980s, had several FET failures due to heat. I eventually removed the phonograph Amp circuit board to reduce heat, and installed dozens of heatsinks on remaining FETs that were hot.

Très riche en réglages, très pointu également, je me souvient de sa sortie ... à l'époque inabordable pour ma bourse 😞 ... j'ai acquis par la suite sont petit frère le c2-a et le c2 x qui fonctionne avec 2 B6 (sûrement mes deux blocs de puissant préféré) ça tourne comme une horloge et ça sonne incroyablement bien. Mais je louche sûr votre C1 que j'aimerai bien tester sur ma grosse configuration .... La Scalla Kplisch AL serie II .... un délice j'en suis certain !!!! .... merci pour ce magnifique exposé sur le Yamaha C1 une des meilleurs preampli au monde !!!

Great review. I have the B-2 amplifier and T-1 tuner, waiting on the C2 preamp to arrive.

Beautiful! I wish I had one to match my Cygnus Power Amplifier.

Всеки комплект трябва да има и още няколко нива на обработка на сигнала, въпреки по-дългия път на сигнала. Да, зная, че използването на повече устройства, отнема част от информацията. Но си заслужава, особено ако тези допълнителни устройства са добре направени. Използвайте след предусилвателя - EQ, crosover, compressor and exspander, AH connektor и други. EQ допълнително разделя сигнала. Може да не променяте линейните му характеристики и той пак ще раздели сигнала. Добре е да използвате захранващ кабел от алуминий с медно покритие - 2.0 мм. за усилвателя. Този кабел подобрява атаката, остротата и обема на звука. Не е вярно, че пречистената мед е по-добрия вариант за захранващ кабел. Моля изпробвайте алуминиев кабел с медно покритие поне 2.0 мм. Естествено трябва да „прегори“ поне един месец. Ако желаете можете да изпробвате комбинации. Например алуминиев кабел за половината устройства от стелажа и меден за другата половина, в каквато последователност желаете. Или в различно отношение 2:1 или 1:2. Медните кабели имат проблем с атаката. Това може да се отстрани чрез добавянето на алуминиев кабел към някои устройства от стелажа.

mid highs and mid lows the presence and acoustic, when i lived in Africa i had the cover off the component so i could put two metal fans from toshiba to avoid excessive heat and more dangerous the high level of humidity

Hello Karl, i am owner of two B1, one B2, Sony TA-N7B several Ta-e88 and 88b, Kyocera C910, B910, Kenwood Supremes and so on ans so on. All my amps and preamps has been fully restaurated. In your video you are mention the Ta-e88 and compare it to the Yamaha C1, has the Sony been restaurated? I heard lots of preamps and never heard anything better than Sony even TOTL Accuphase like C2800 cant compete with Sony. Only Kenwood L07c-II is near but with slightly different type of sound. Regards, Božidar

Absolutely beautiful pre amp. I didn't realize just how large it was until you were sitting in front of it in the end. Makes sense though considering the weight. I would absolutely love one of the higher end yamaha integrated amps like the ca-2010 in black as I think the colour is absolutely gorgeous, but sadly they don't exist. You mention the sound being slightly smoother which to me indicates that the output is slightly coloured, perhaps that characteristic smooth warmish v-fet sound? I missed a ta-8650 the other month on ebay for +-1000 euros which is a shame. Still looking for a nice integrated amplifier that has some nice looks. I am currently using a ta-4650 which has a pretty decent output stage but the pre amp frankly is not great.

i have some pre-amplifiers bought in the 70´s or 90´s and this one was always one of my favorite ones for the functions it as one can improve the sound of any source and also have a receiver that one can put all sources at the same output level ,i only saw it on yamaha amplifiers or receivers, i have more components from other brands but yamaha always had great equipment ,this is a good example ,it´s very rare to see a so complete pre-amplifier, some even say that is excessive and no need for it but then some tell me "i don´t like the sound of this record " and i reply well in my pre i can make it sound better ,you have a better one you told me so why can´t you make it sound better ?if amplifiers have tone controls or loudness why are they not used, the old story of that´s how the artist wanted it to be heard to what i reply i´m sure that in the studio it must had sounded great or it wouldn´t be released. the Sony you refered is the same in what sound quality ?while listening in flat or the yamaha which can be improved by several functions available on it ,the reason why i say it´s my favorite, more important the already refered output level for each inputs or source´s

vfet ok, i do have ta-n7 completely restored, b2 is just about to be restored, but imho and to my ears nothing can beat kenwood supreme 700m, perfect in every way. C1 is so expensive, out of my budget, but it looks nice:)

I always wondered if there is a C1 beside the C2 & C4 ... 😲

the Dragon there makes me fell really bad i had two 10 years apart never got more than one year working correctelly but if i knew i would have bought at least 10 to sell them today they weren´t that expensive compared to other brands deck´s but i have others that still work perfect from NAK.

Would be interesting to hear any deference between this and the C6 that has MC I/p and parametric eq

Pioneer Exclusive C-7 or Sony TA-ER1 might be better.

Johny sins? Is that you?

8 pounds = 17 kilos ? what!