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Vintage worth restoring?

Posted by jedrider (A) on February 22, 2022 at 09:26:46

Just a general question: Are the vintage Japanese receivers worth restoring?

For instance, Pioneer or Sansui.

Are the low power or high power designs a better bet?

I have a friend who has accumulated a bunch of these. Is he sitting on a gold mine?

I can do restoration myself, but really now, is it worth it over something more recent?

Is it the tuners that make them so valuable or the amplifier or the fact that it doesn't use ICs?

I had a Yamaha R9 with digital tuner (but I'm really talking about 70's era gear and not 80's) that I thought had a really good tuner. I had to bypass it's pre-amp though, to make it sound good, then I gave it away and I believe it was eventually scrapped over being moved too many times with my botched upgrade attempt.

But are they worth it for a newbie (not myself, obviously) that I can help get started into the audio component world, or just buy used, not too old, as is my current opinion (unless one is a FM radio hound, as I am, but we're not many, it appears)?

Edits: 02/22/22

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