[AlienAgenda]

I have 3 Luxman single channel amps that I have no real idea as to what they are rated .... best i can tell they are about at least 15 years old or better.....


they are solid black with a single power swich on the front and only a 2 speaker connection in the rear with bridging option.....


they are about 30 inches deep... 8 inches tall and 24" wide and wiegh in at 38lbs. each.....


company i used to work for did some sound wave energy tests with them and some jbl 15" subs - testing lab stuff as an option to mechanical vibration....did work out and i ran across the amps in storage and asked whose they were and they said "yours if you want them" - who could say no to that....


i use all three of them with my system and they really do deliver an astounding amount of clean power....


just wondering what happened to the company and what their rep might have been.....and of course what i might have....

 

[apg]

Luxman is a strange company- for one thing, it is genuine- nearly 80 years old as a strictly Japanese company. It built a reputation on quality engineering, and indeed holds patents on some significant technology, especially on feedback systems. At the same time, it has produced some truly awful gear- the BIC/Lux receivers of the early '70's spring to mind, (BIC was "British Industries Corporation", and Luxman was decidedly not British...), as well as some of the lower end consumer oriented gear of the '80's, when Alpine had some sway over them.

Luxman as a engineering company still makes small quantities of incredibly expensive hand-crafted tube gear strictly for their domestic market, and like with BIC and then Alpine, "lends" their cachet to goods manufactured by others; most recently Samsung, for export.

Without a model number, it is difficult to say more about your amplifiers, but if the guts glow softly orange in the dark, you may have something special...

 

[AlienAgenda]

i think i found one like it on the web

M117.....


cannot find the specs for them anywhere....


thanks for any help someone can offer as to what the spec this amp may be.....


its an m117..... i think its 200watts / channel but not sure if thats at 8 ohms or 4 ohms and i think the units are stable at 3.5 ohms and can be bridged to 700watts for single channel .......

 

[b curry]

The M 113 manual is for sale on e-bay right now!