hehehe galing talaga ni master jojo....
We previously had a Pioneer Amp in the late 70's (usong uso non ang components eh)...I already forgotten the model pero simple lang sya, me dalawang knob na malaki (one for volume and the other for selecting tape/phono/tuner/aux) at power button tapos me led lights lang for identifying whether its on or off.....tapos ang kapal at ang bigat nya.....
it sounded really good for me during the early 80's and at that time it is paired with a Pioneer turntable (this I like), a single tape deck (di pa masyadong uso non ang double tape deck) a Pioneer dual 7band graphic equalizer for left and right channel, a Pioneer AM/FM tuner and a HUMONGOUS 5-way almost cabinet size Pioneer speakers that rocks our house.....pati kapitbahay namin eh nakikipakinig na lang sa amin....hehehehe
I miss those gears......every component died by themselves due to wear and tear or by course of nature disturbance..... the Integ. Amp accompany us until 92 or 93 at that time with only a sony cdp as its mate......
Thats one piece of Amp that I wont forget....very powerful for me and everybody who hears it swears that it is a good sounding Amp....and at that time I dont know what is a good and a bad sounding Amp...until in the late 90's when the bug hits me again and I want to have another audio gears again...my first course of action is to find a Pioneer Amp again trying to re-kindled my affair with the ol' Pioneer gears....but I was dissapointed...I've auditioned Pioneer Amps here and there new and old and I cannot get the sound that I've been once familiar with.... I've stumbled to one Amp that sounds very good but it was an Elite model and at that time I need to rob a bank to buy this kind of Amp. And at that time there are so many new things that catch my attentions....AVR's which is quite complicated for me at first....What the hell are they thinking, making the simple audio setup so complicated, why so many DSP's, why cant it be a bass and treble only??
After auditioning some Pioneers, Sansui's (which faded in the scene completely) and Marantz, only the Marantz hold its foothold on the old known brand...and I moved on.....opening myself on a vast and complicated A/V world....hehehehe