What Can You Tell Me From Looking At These Specs?

[Contrastique]

I can hardly find any information on the Akai AM 69 on the net as they're quite old (20yrs something) but I found the specs of the model before. Just interested to see if someone can tell me anything about them by just looking at the specs. The bigger brother of the AM67 I am now using as a headphone amp.

Specs:

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[Skylab]

Unfortunately, amplifier specs cannot tell you anything about how an amp SOUNDS. What you can tell from this is the following:

1. At 110 wpc into 8 ohms, this is a reasonably powerful amplifier.
2. It has a moving-magnet phono input! Cool!
3. It has only fair channel separation, but that will likely have very little actual impact.

 

[Contrastique]

Thanx for your input. This is a very powerful amp indeed! I've spent all evening listening to it, still am actually as I type.
I can throw away half of my recordings as most of them just plain suck (nothing to do with bitrate as most of them are lossless).
When I bought the Larocco I found myself in pure heaven and thought I had heard all there was to the music I listen to but this is just a killer (lol literally) compared.
I would love to let other people hear this and see what their comments would be on this one.
I'm still really surprised by this.

 

[tfarney]

Cool-looking amp. Looks like it could stand on its head shuffling a deck of cards while playing tunes! If it's just 20 years old, odds are pretty good the headphone section is driven by an op amp, not the main amps that drive the speaker terminals, but most of the dedicated headphone amps out there are built around op amps too so that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with that. If it sounds good, it is good.

Tim

 

[Contrastique]

It sounds good to me, it's just I don't have anything to compare it with. I'm looking to get a Beta in the future. It would be nice to find out what that thing has more to offer than the amp I use now.
Got me even more curious haha! But so far really enjoying it so it's going nowhere in the mean time.

 

[92135011]

BATTERIES INCLUDED!!!!!

 

[Contrastique]

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Originally Posted by 92135011 /img/forum/go_quote.gif BATTERIES INCLUDED!!!!!

Absolutely remarkably noticed and you even took the time sharing

 

[b0dhi]

Everything looks good except channel seperation.