Fisher 202-B (circa 1961–1963)

What survives on the Fisher 202-B is mostly the company's own advertising. There the model always appears in full as the X-202-B - an integrated stereo control amplifier, or "Stereo Master Control-Amplifier" in Fisher's period phrasing. The ad campaign ran from late 1961 into 1962 in Audio (September 1961, p.13) and High Fidelity (December 1961, p.21). It priced the X-202-B at $249.50 and put it one step below Fisher's flagship X-1000 at $339.50. Fisher's tagline said only one finer stereo control amplifier existed - the one on the right, meaning the X-1000.

The advertised pitch was flexibility and simplicity. One chassis carried features normally found only on separate preamps and power amplifiers, including tape-monitor switching that let you monitor tapes while still using all controls during playback. Early ads rated the amplifier at 75 watts. By October 1963, HiFI-Stereo (October 1963, p.31) described the same model as 80 watts and noted it was difficult to compare with other stereo control amplifiers in its power class, because at that moment none existed.

After that the record thins out. No independent bench test, service manual, or production-run details have surfaced in the Archive's holdings. The period sources do place the model: Fisher's upper-middle integrated amplifier of the early sixties, a single-chassis design priced at $249.50.

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