In Reply to: Why is there no excitement over Sanyo built Fisher? posted by yrly on Jat 09:55:31:
- Re: Why is there no excitement over Sanyo built Fisher? - Bold Eagle 20:47:38 07/22/03.
- Perhaps those few of us lucky enough to own one are not parting with them for good reason and hence the lack of availability? Just my observations while I long for the Fisher RS-1080. While some envy grabbing a Marantz 2325 etc, and are paying an arm and a leg for it, why am I searching ebay hoping to see that Fisher RS-1080 (one model up from the RS-1060 if that is at all possible)? Like the MCS 3125, I feel these were underrated units, and that has made them cheap when they are available. Yet such things do not generate any enthusiasm, I hardly see a post regarding one of these later Fisher units unless I make mention of it. It sounds impressive and has one of the three best tuners I have encountered. I have never dared put it above 1/4 volume and even then I was using my preamp to attenuate the volume, it has power. Fabulous build quality with clean circuit boards, huge transformer and capacitors. I have seen all of one on ebay this past year, the one I bought, I won it on the opening bid of $99, after some reasearch I went and put a last minute bid of $150 on it only to win with the first bid.
The best they had to offer in 1978 when mine was manufactured. Sitting two feet wide, tipping the scales at an impressive 57lbs, drawing 800 watts of power with a 10 amp fuse every feature you could want, dolby capability, some sort of bass equalization crossover, awesome blue dial, with red lit source indicators, red LED in the volume control. Let alone the RS-1060, a receiver I think should belong up there with the fabled units such as the Sansui 9090DB, Marantz 2325, Pioneer SX-1050 etc.
It sounds great, has plenty of power, has an excellent FM tuner, nice blue lighted dial and tuning meters, yet no one seems interested in the least in them. It has an ample sized transformer, two nicely sized 15000uf capacitors (many receivers available in the range I have seen these sell for have 6800uf caps) a very clean signal path which you can practically trace, big externally mounted heatsinks. I took the RS-1058 apart after purchasing it because it needed a good cleaning, despite the fact that it was far from the heaviest or biggest unit around it was a nicely built little unit (well its not exactly little and it has a considerable amount of power). While there were some less than stellar receivers under the "Studio Standard" label, I own two late 70s Fisher receviers, an RS-1058 and RS-1060. I have seen hearty recommendations for virtually all other products. One thing I have noticed on this forum is a considerable lack of interest in Sanyo built Fisher products (which can be identified as 70s-present units called "Studio Standard").