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Originally Posted by jimtranr
Had the pleasure of demo'ing the 150 when I worked at San Jose's Garland Audio from 1977 to 1980, typically driving Fulton Js, Magnepan Tympani 1Ds, or--occasionally--Sequerra Pyramids (a speaker system that Jim Winey heard for the first time in our shop and assessed with the pithy comment, "I'm not afraid of it"). A trouble-free amp that had no serious competition sonically from the other amps we carried (Levinson, GAS, Luxman) until the D-79 arrived.
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Fulton Js and Tympani 1Ds....now you're taking me back, Jim!
Speaking of those days, I remember when I drove down to Palo Alto in 1980 to...was it Audio Excellence? to hear the Snell Type As. They were, at the time, the best-sounding loudspeaker I had ever heard. They were powered by a Snell amplifier that was likely one of the few in the USA at the time.
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