Nikko TRM-1200 (circa 1971)
The Nikko TRM-1200 is an amplifier from the early 1970s whose record has mostly faded. Little is documented about it. The clearest surviving reference is a review in Audio (July 1971, p.24), where the TRM-1200 was tested alongside the Garrard Zero 100 turntable. The digitized text of that review is cut off mid-sentence, but it appears to report a measured parameter — likely distortion — as so low as to be insignificant, which the reviewer counted as a positive. A year later the model was still being catalogued in Audio's September 1972 survey of basic and integrated amplifiers (p.39), though the surviving OCR of that page is too clipped to preserve its own entry.
A spec block may describe the same amplifier: response of 5–100,000 Hz ±0.5 dB, THD and IM each 0.02%, a phono sensitivity of 0.08 mV, and a price of $375 including walnut cabinet. The caveat is that the OCR runs those specifications straight into an entry for "SA-900 Integrated Amp," so the match is probable but not proven.
That is essentially the whole surviving record. No production dates, power rating, or collector lore have surfaced to date. For now, the TRM-1200 stands as a well-reviewed but barely documented Nikko model — the kind of amp that makes a complete archive a slow, honest process.
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