Technics SA-5250 (c. 1975–76)

The archive knows the SA-5250 mostly through Technics' own advertising. There is no service literature and no independent bench test. A spread the company ran through 1975 and into 1976 introduced four new stereo receivers - the SA-5150, SA-5250, SA-5350, and SA-5550. The SA-5250 was second in that lineup, priced at $299.95.

Technics' advertising in Audio (February 1976, p.114) claimed the whole range shared direct coupling for "tighter, cleaner bass," negative-feedback low-distortion tone controls, and effortless tuning on AM and FM, plus "all the inputs and outputs you'd expect from Technics." The ad also tabulated minimum RMS power per channel for each model. The SA-5250's figure doesn't survive legibly in the copies we have, and no independent period review of this model has turned up in the archive.

That's about the honest extent of it:

Stereo receiver, one of four in Technics' 1975–76 lineup
Original price: $299.95, between the SA-5150 ($229.95) and the SA-5350 ($349.95)
Advertised with direct-coupled output stages and negative-feedback tone controls

If you own an SA-5250, have a manual, or have tracked down a contemporary test report, the archive would welcome the details.