Panasonic SA-5800
A moderate-power receiver that kept nearly every control of its bigger brother and, by one reviewer's account, gave up nothing in the tuner to get there.
Overview
The SA-5800 was Panasonic's second-tier FM/AM stereo receiver in the early Seventies, sitting below the SA-6500 that the audio press had met in late 1971.
A DIN socket parallels one tape-monitor jack pair.
The receiver measures 16 inches wide, 5½ high, and 14 deep, and weighs 24 lbs. HiFi-Stereo (December 1971, p.20) listed the SA-5800 among new products with a DIN socket paralleling a tape-recorder jack pair, and placed the broader Panasonic line between $199.95 and $990. A wood case was offered per High Fidelity (September 1972, p.43), which called the receiver "an attractive value" in its consumer guide.
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