Vintage Olympic F-97 Tube Amplifier/Tuner. Console Pull, Works. 50HE5. Japan
This little tube amp sounds very nice. It was pulled from a 1960s Olympic record player/console and was made in Japan around 1967. It has been cleaned and all the tubes tested. It sounds very nice in FM, but I think it needs a high output cartridge for the Phono section. The phono section is tested and working, but the turntable I tested with it had very low volume. This unit powers up with a standard wall plug. Some console amps have a funky power switch scenario, not this one. It is powered by 2 50PE5 output tubes. That actually translates to about 1 W per channel. So this is definitely a flea watt amplifier. But it produces pretty good volume with my small eight ohm speakers. With highly efficient tube era speakers, I think it would do great. It does have a low level ground ham, when NFM. It did not have this hum when it was still in the console cabinet, so I think this is simply a grounding issue that can be easily remedied. Please see pics, you will receive exactly what is shown. The original schematic is included. This unit does not have an auxiliary input.
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