I will try to make a short story out of a long one, lol, so here goes. On Monday in Pittsburgh Craigslist there was a vintage Monster stereo receiver about 2 hours away. So I emailed the guy, went and bought it. By the way it a Toshiba sa-7150. It was dirty but not too beat up, except the wood veneer sides, which a local vintage hifi shop and the owner said he had a parts receiver insuper nice shape and would gather up the parts for it and give me a call when he did. So Saturday night I drive to he shop with my Toshiba which weighs about 70-75 lbs, to get the parts and put them on. So I get there and its the audio geek meeting and he says your parts are over there on the speakers. So I was very excited to see how nice they were and when I had them in my hands I saw what I thought was the owners manual for the receiver which I was super glad coz those are very to come by as we know. BUT it was the owners manual and service manual for the Panasonic RX-A2.which the paper work was sitting on. I asked Tom where he got this and he says just came in, a guy from Florida sent it to me. Thot I may want it. 50 buks I paid and he says it pretty neat.I tred to act like I wasnt too excited about it and remarked that it was the same as the 6400. Is it for sale I asked and he says sure. How much? What I paid, 50 BUCKS!!!! Wow couldnt believe it, so I paid him for the parts and the RX-A2 and hung out at the shop for about 5 hours. So now its close to 11pm Eastern time and wanted to get home and check this out. HOLY S**T. This thing is flipping awesome and so well made. A lil contact cleaner and the volume was static free. What a great piece of art this thing is. With all the cables and evreything included was like a dream. Glad i went when i did. Thats my short story, haha. By the way if anybody knows aout the 2 channel, vintage monster receivers ot the late 70s and early 80s, these are something to behold. Everytime I say I am finished collecting here comes something else that Isee and buy. Never wanted one of these RX-A2s but they are amazing. I am sorry I dont hve a camera coz I know you guys want to see pics, I would. You will just have to trust me that it is pefect cosmeticall. Whew. Peace brothers.

that rx-a2 is the only box i know about that sounds like it has endless power --
at full volume and full bass --
it has the least distortion of any of the big
8" models

great score man, as always we need pics, to prove it hahahaha just kidding bro,

The RX-A2/6400 is an absolute beast in terms of output and build quality, although I'm curious to hear that Clarion Xc-5500.

Hey Drip I know I am way behind the times. I should have got one ages ago but keep jacking around. Also I had to change my Username to Ash26 since the new site wouldnt let me post until I verified my email and when I did it said it wasnt recognized. So a new name is born. Oh well, guess I will be a newbie again.

Nice pickup there... Rare too

ITS CUTE, the center console looks like the 80'S  Numark dj mixers, would you say, that is from the early or  late 80's?

Altho I wouldnt want that box...I dont think I have ever seen one before...cheerz Retro