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Sunday, April 30, 2017

JVC R-S5 Receiver

Early 1980's 27 watts per channel silver faced JVC receiver arrived today in mint condition.





This looks like it as in between the JVC JR-S300 and the JVC R-S33 class A receiver.

At 27 watts per channel perhaps build quality and sound was more important then gizmo's and gadgets as per the other two JVC receivers listed above.

This unit is pretty simple and clean looking. Best of all is the 90db sensitivity to the phono section.

Full specs are as follows courtesy of HiFi Engine

Specifications

Tuning range: FM, MW
Power output: 27 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo)
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20kHz
Total harmonic distortion: 0.03%
Signal to noise ratio: 90dB (MM)
Speaker load impedance: 4Ω (minimum)

2 comments:

  1. Dumb question maybe, but my wife got this beautiful JVC RS-5 stereo receiver long before we got married, and I want to hook up the nice speakers she got with them at the time, but after several moves, the user manual got lost, and I looked on the back panel of the unit and found 4 pairs colored red and black, but not in the configuration that one would expect. I need an explanation or which connections to use to the speakers.

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    1. Red would be the positive lead to the speaker black is the negative.

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