Lafayette 250A
Little is documented about the Lafayette 250A beyond one group lab report and Lafayette's own advertising. It was an integrated stereo amplifier, sold factory-wired as the LA-250A and in kit form as the KT-250A. HiFI-Stereo (July 1961, p.38) ran the LA-250A as part of a six-amplifier laboratory test, priced at $99.50 including a metal cabinet. The review rated it at 25 watts per channel and noted the front panel's simplicity - it lacked some of the control facilities found on more expensive units, which the reviewer considered a virtue. The KT-250A kit version cost $74.50.
Lafayette's own advertising described the LA-250A as a 50-watt stereo amplifier - a figure consistent with 25 W/ch. By early 1962 it was offering the amp in complete systems with a Garrard AT-6 turntable and Pickering 380C cartridge (High Fidelity, March 1962, p.6).
That is nearly the whole surviving record. The lab report's detailed measurements are not preserved in the usual archives, no service manual has surfaced, and production years are undocumented. What remains places the 250A in Lafayette's lineup from mid-1961 into early 1962 as a straightforward, mid-priced stereo amplifier.
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