Last week, I talk about Audiolab 8000A integrated amplifier and its return to shops and dealers with a line-up of new hi-fi separates. Another integrated amplifier, this time Pioneer A400 pictured below.
Pioneer A400 is a no frills ‘audiophile’ amplifier that set the ‘cat among the pigeons’ when it was introduced in 1990. Hi-Fi magazines greeted it with a chorus of praise. Comparisons with amplifiers costing up to £1,000 were made, confirming that the A400 is indeed a ‘giant killer’. It won the coveted Product of the Year by the What Hi-Fi magazine – an accolade that had never before gone to a Japanese company.
This amplifier caught my attention when I saw it wayback 1992 in Singapore coz its the first Japanese amplifier I encountered without tone control only volume control and input and output selector(a minimalist amplifier). It was also the reference amplifier of shop and dealers there that I was accustomed to what we call the Brit's sound and the start of my interest in audiophile and hi-fi stereo.
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