If you love classic hi-fi gear, you’ll love the equipment in our Hall of Fame!
Welcome to my brand new Hall of Fame, a page dedicated to showcasing the very best hi-fi equipment in terms of design, construction, and sonic performance. This page is my newest and actively under construction, so just keep this in mind.
Accuphase A-75 Class A Power Amplifier
Having finally gotten my grubby little mitts on my new Accuuphase A-75 class A power amplifier, I can confirm that it is easily the best-sounding amplifier I’ve ever heard or owned. You might expect this though, given the $35,000 AUD retail price, matched by its replacement the Accuphase A-80.
Quad 405-2 Power Amplifier
The legend, the bargain, the miniature, the deco – the Quad 405 and 405-2 power amplifiers are, without doubt, legends of their time. I still have mine and won’t sell it. The Quad 405-2 absolutely deserves its place in the Hall of Fame.
Perreaux PMF-5150B Power Amplifier
The sublime and stealthy Perreaux PMF-5150B has been the heart of my reference system for 5 years now, until only recently, after a tip-off from my friend Jason who has four of the bloody things! These 500-watt-per-channel MOSFET power amplifiers are absolutely beautiful, if a bit big and hot running, as you would expect of an amplifier that draws a continuous 300 Watts!
Accuphase DP-90 Precision Compact Disc Player
Sweet baby Jesus, I’ve never seen a CD player this well-built or heard a CD player this good, and I’ve seen and heard a few. I’m so glad I added this Accuphase DP-90 to my system. Now I need an Accuphase DC-91.
Accuphase C-280V Precision Class-A Preamplifier
If you love gear that features stratospheric build quality and sound, you just cannot go past the Accuphase C-280V precision preamplifier, the very top-of-the-range for this prestigious Japanese engineering-first hi-fi company, back in 1990.
This is good for a couple of reasons. Top of the range meant nearly 1,000,000Y and the current top-of-the-range Accuphase replacement is $50,000 AUD. It also means you get a seriously good phono preamp that smacks around $5000 separate phono preamps built right in. The separate Accuphase phono pre you’d need to add to the line level only current top preamp costs another $20,000.
This is outrageously good gear by any measure and I’m happy I bit the bullet and bought one.
Accuphase P-360 Power Amplifier
A lesser-known gem from Accuphase, the P-360 is a 200 Watt per-channel beast in a svelte and very attractive 30kg package. This amplifier hails from the golden era of Accuphase which for me is around 1982 – 1995. Superbly well-built and with amazing sonics, I am so glad to own this beauty.
