Do one thing, and do it beautifully. That must have been the mantra when this was designed. This Luxman T-88V is easily one of the sexiest tuners we've seen, and it's in perfect working order.
- Production
- 1976-79
- Condition
- 9/10
- Serial No.
- A8608784
- Orig. MSRP
- $345
- Restoration
- Full 30-point service check
- Cleaned controls, switches, and chassis
- Factory Specs
Type Mono/Stereo Tuner
Tuning Bands FM, MW
Tuning Scale Analogue
FM Tuning Range 88 to 108 MHz
MW Tuning Range 520 to 1610 kHz
Sensitivity 2.0uV (FM)
Signal to Noise Ratio 68dB (FM)
Distortion 0.4% (FM)
Selectivity 60dB (FM)
Frequency Response 20Hz to 15kHz (FM)
Output 1600mV
Dimensions 17.77"W x 11.8"D x 6.30"H
Weight 15.5 lbs.
- The History of Luxman
- LUXMAN started its business in 1925, the year when radio broadcasting started in Japan. The company called Kinsuido, a picture frame company in Osaka, made a radio department, which later became LUX. Kinsuido was the first company to display and sell radio receiving equipment at the stores. A lot of people stopped to ...
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- Liner Notes
The T88V is designed as a matching tuner to the L-80 series integrated amplifiers with a common concept of being refined yet economical. It incorporates all the useful features with a modern appearance. The FM section consists of a 4-gang tuning capacitor and FET RF amplifier circuits, inter-stage double tuning circuit, mixer circuit, and special oscillator circuit of low distortion. This results in excellent figures in such characteristics as high sensitivity, signal overload capability, various spurious responses and intermodulation distortion. Therefore impeccable quality reproduction of FM broadcasting is possible over a wide range of signal strengths. The IF amplifier employs 2 pairs of linear ceramic filters together with 2 transistors, and adoption of LC double tuning circuit, wide bandwidth discriminator transformer. A high gain IC makes it possible to obtain an improved phase relationship as well as excellent distortion and separation. In the MPX circuit the specially selected PLL IC is used, which automatically compensates for voltage and temperature drift etc. for many years without the need for re-alignment, so ensures good separation and low distortion. All above mentioned facts account for our meticulous care paid to overall improvement of reproduced tonal quality. Also a constant voltage supply circuit is provided at the power supply section to offer high stability against fluctuation of power supply voltage. Annexed accessories are FM high blend circuit, FM muting circuit, multipath detector and output level setter, etc. Among others the FM muting circuit is of electronic operation by means of transistor logic and FET analog audio muting, which is controlled by signal strength and accuracy of tuning centre ensuring a stable muting threshold irrespective of RF input strength, and at the same time eliminates thump noises at the time of ON/OFF operation of the muting switch. The AM section is composed by high quality variable capacitor with ceramic filter at the IF amplifier, and therefore excellent selectivity and faithful reproduction.
- Stock No.
- 8071969669341
Do one thing, and do it beautifully. That must have been the mantra when this was designed. This Luxman T-88V is easily one of the sexiest tuners we've seen, and it's in perfect working order.
