MOST $600 RECEIVERS SOUND AS GOOD AS THIS ONE.
The average $600 receiver sounds as good as the new Pioneer SX-650 until you start listening to prices.
If $600 is your kind of price, an SX-650 should qualify as your kind of receiver. Not only will it give you the kind of features and sound quality you'd expect for that kind of money; it'll also leave you with roughly half your receiver budget unexpectedly unspent.
But suppose your idea of a receiver price is somewhere under $300 The SX-650 is going to sound better to you than anything you thought you could afford. Because it has more power, a wider frequency range, less distortion, and far greater versatility than most other receivers in that category.
All this might sound a little extravagant; but an authentic breakthrough, an achievement like the SX-650, doesn't happen often. We've learned that when our promises seem to sound especially rich, the best thing to do is simply review the facts.
It's a fact that the SX-650 provides a continuous power output of 35 watts per channel, min. RMS into 8 ohms, from 20 to 20,000 Hz, with no more than 0.3% total harmonic distortion. It also delivers each instrument and voice at its intended level, balanced within ± 0.3% of the RIAA curve.
The facts of its stereo separation, selectivity and sensitivity, however, must be experienced: numbers are impressive, but sometimes only hearing is believing.
You'll also be impressed by what you don't hear from the SX-650. You won't hear an assortment of background noises, or the thousand miscellaneous acoustic devils that live in the limbo between FM stations on lesser receivers.
On your next visit to a high fidelity dealer, listen to a Pioneer SX-650 with any reasonably accurate speakers.
You'll find either its price or its performance amazing.
Depending on which you hear first.
PIONEER Electronics Corp, 75 Oxford Drive, Moonachie, New Jersey 07074 USA.
For informational purposes only, the SX-650 is priced under $300 The actual resale price will be set by die Individual Pioneer dealer at his option.
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(High Fidelity, Feb 1977)
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