Crown 102
Nothing is documented about the Crown 102. Compare the Crown D-150, which High-Fidelity (March 1972, p.46) reviewed as a stereo power amplifier measuring 16½ by 5 by 8 inches and priced at $399. The model number 102 appears in no period review, service manual, factory brochure, classified listing, or trade advertisement found to date across the major audio publications and archives. It is absent from every Crown product family context that surrounds better-known models such as the D-150, DC-300, and Macro-Tech series.
The surviving record can't say whether the 102 was a planned but unproduced model, an internal engineering code, a very short-run specialty unit, or a mislabeling in a secondary source. The Vintage Technology Archive lists it anyway, in case a reader holds the missing piece - a sales sheet, a service note, a photograph from a trade show - that could place the 102 in Crown's history.
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