SONY Tuners & Amplifiers January 1983

A twelve-page booklet covering SONY’s full amplifier and tuner lineup for January 1983, from the entry-level AX series up to the ESPRIT high-end separates. The amplifier section leads with the TA-F555ES at ¥99,000, built around SONY’s Current Drive topology - the output stage responds to current rather than voltage, which is meant to reduce sensitivity to speaker impedance variations. The AX series below it (TA-AX5, AX44, AX70, AX6, AX7F, AX5F, AX22, plus TA-V7 and TA-V5) uses ASP IC microcomputer control for automated operation and preset memory.

The tuner section is headlined by the ST-S555ES at ¥65,000, a synthesizer tuner with Direct Vernier precision tuning and readiness for PCM digital broadcasts. The rest of the tuner range covers ST-JX8/JX5/JX44/JX22, the ST-TX5 with a built-in program timer for unattended recording, and simpler models like the ST-YX7/YX5, ST-V7 and ST-A5.

The ESPRIT series gets its own spread - eight components from the TA-N86 power amplifier at ¥90,000 up to the TA-E900 preamp at ¥480,000 and the TA-D900 digital power amplifier at ¥240,000. The final pages show the Digital section: CDP-101 (SONY’s first CD player at ¥168,000) alongside PCM adapters PCM-F1, PCM-F05, and PCM-701ES for recording digital audio to VCR tape.