Technics ST-9030T (date unknown)
Not much is documented about the Technics ST-9030T. No specifications, production dates or circuit details for it have turned up.
What the period record does show is the ST-9030 (no T). Technics announced it with an odd advertising angle. The ad admitted that to some purists a tuner with 0.08% THD, 50 dB stereo separation, a 0.8 dB capture ratio and clean waveform reproduction should have cost over $1,000 - then noted the ST-9030 delivered all of it for under $400. The campaign ran in Audio (October 1977, p.45) and High Fidelity (October 1977, p.143). It also touted FETs in a two-stage RF amplifier with a balanced mixer, plus a servo tuning circuit said to lock onto the tuned frequency and eliminate drift. By spring 1978 the advertised price had moved up to under $450. Those claims belong to the ST-9030. Whether the ST-9030T shared them is not documented.
That is the whole of the Archive's record on the 9030T. If you own one, or have a brochure, manual or service sheet, we'd be glad to document it properly.
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