Technics ST-8011 (c. 1979)

Name: Technics ST-8011
Brand: Technics

Not much is documented about the Technics ST-8011 as a component on its own. What the record shows comes mainly from a Technics advertising campaign that ran in late 1979. The ad promoted the ST-8011 as the AM/FM stereo tuner in an affordable matched stack, along with the SU-8011 amplifier and the SH-8010 stereo frequency equalizer.

The campaign ran in HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers (November 1979, p.86). Technics' own advertising claimed the buyer could get "a lot of performance" out of the three pieces without pouring a lot of money into them. Most of the copy went to the SU-8011 amplifier, not the tuner. It quoted 25 watts RMS per channel into 8 ohms, 20 Hz to 20 kHz, with no more than 0.08% total harmonic distortion. It also listed 13,600 microfarads of high-capacitance filtering and a two-stage direct-coupled phono equalizer. Those figures belong to the SU-8011, not to the ST-8011. The tuner is named and pictured as part of the system, but the ad gave no specifications for it.

Beyond its existence as a late-1970s Technics tuner aimed at the budget end of the brand's lineup, almost nothing specific is recorded about the ST-8011's circuitry, tuning system, or measured performance.

Known from the period advertising: