Teac PA-400
A model number that turns up in the archive attached to the wrong badge — and the record needs to say so.
Overview
The entry for the Teac PA-400 is, at present, an entry with nothing behind it. No verified research has been supplied for a Teac product carrying this designation — no catalog page, no owner's manual, no service document, no period review that names a Teac PA-400 specifically. Until that changes, this page exists to record an honest absence rather than to invent a product to fill the space.
The one substantive document the archive has retrieved under the "PA-400" designation does not belong to Teac at all. It is Peavey literature — a packaged-PA catalog page describing the Peavey PA 400, a 200-watt-RMS six-channel public-address head with low and high gain inputs on each channel, per-channel volume, bass, treble, middle, and reverb/effects send, a master section carrying volume, reverb, treble, bass, middle, and effects, and Peavey's "scanning" anti-feedback filters switchable in the low and high frequencies. That unit also carried a patch panel with outputs for external mixers, power amps, monitors, and effects, plus auxiliary inputs, a power-amp input, and a reverb footswitch jack. A separate dealer listing in the same batch confirms the Peavey PA400 as a 200W reverb-equipped head sold alongside the PA 120, the standard 130W model, and the PA 600 and PA 900. None of this is Teac material, and none of it should be read as describing a Teac product. It is recorded here only so that anyone chasing the "PA-400" string understands where it actually leads.
Collectors who have spent time in Teac's catalog will recognize that the company's documented amplifier output is concentrated in a different naming world entirely — the A-series integrated amps, the AX and AS receivers, the Reference-series separates. A "PA-400" does not appear in the brand catalog maintained alongside this page, which includes no such entry. That is not proof the model never existed; it is simply the state of the evidence.
The magazine chunks retrieved for this page are similarly unhelpful as identification. They are OCR fragments from HiFi-Stereo issues of 1995 and 1996 — dealer-advertising pages listing VCRs, CD players, and cassette decks, with one 1995 page (HiFi-Stereo, May 1995, p.92) noting a Teac AG-V1050 remote A/V stereo receiver rated at 103 watts per channel with six audio inputs and a Teac W-515R double auto-reverse cassette deck. Useful context for what Teac was actually selling in the mid-nineties, but nothing in them mentions a PA-400. No period review, price, or specification for a Teac PA-400 can be cited from these sources, and none is offered here.
What remains, then, is a caution rather than a profile. Model designations get reused across manufacturers and decades, and "PA-400" is exactly the kind of string that attaches itself to the wrong badge in a search index. Anyone who owns a unit badged Teac PA-400 — or believes they do — is invited to send photographs of the faceplate, the rear panel, and any serial or model plate to the archive. That is the only route by which this page can become a real entry. Until then, the honest answer is that the Teac PA-400 is undocumented, and the only "PA-400" the archive can actually describe is a Peavey.
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