Technics SA-5350 (1975–1976)

Not much of the SA-5350's record survives except advertising. Technics promoted it as the third model in a new line of four stereo receivers - alongside the SA-5150, SA-5250, and SA-5550 - and the same spread ran in several audio magazines from mid-1975 into 1976, including Audio (June 1975, p.78) and High Fidelity (June 1975, p.18).

From that ad, the known facts: the SA-5350 listed at $349.95, sitting between the $299.95 SA-5250 and the $479.95 SA-5550. Technics cited a direct-coupled amplifier for firmer, cleaner bass, low-distortion tone controls using negative feedback, easy tuning on both AM and FM, and the expected complement of inputs and outputs. The ad also touted a minimum RMS power figure, but that number is cut off in the surviving copies, and no independent test report or service material for the SA-5350 has turned up in the archive so far.

Stereo receiver, AM/FM
List price (1975): $349.95
Lineup: SA-5150 ($229.95), SA-5250 ($299.95), SA-5350 ($349.95), SA-5550 ($479.95)
Direct-coupled amplifier; negative-feedback tone controls