Price Paid:  $300.00

Summary:
Well-built, well-equipped and keenly priced design, with some intriguing technology under the skin

Strengths:
Certain strengths of the Technics should not be overlooked. The amp is capable of imposing an effective discipline on the music. The Grainger, for example, was described as having a "small, tight image (which is) compact but honest, and not as overblown as some of the others." The word "control" cropped up on several occasions though, if anything, the Technics''s control was overdone. The Grainger recording, for example, is deliberately spacious and open, yet much of the ambient information is lost through this amp. "Not perfect, but enjoyable," was one listener''s final remark.

Weaknesses:
not that good sound