Luxman CL-34
(1980 - 1984)

Just pre-Alpine days - elegant, warm, with vacuum tubes and a discrete color touch.

No masterpiece but a heck of a good preamplifier - almost anything with 12AX7 is worth listening to. Especially with the optional W34 wood enclosure - drives one toward fine wine along music listening. A warm Bordeaux or a Pommery Cuvée Louise 1989 if you're into champagne - at 168,000¥, the CL-34 stood at the beginning of "serious hifi" in Japan in those days.

The optional 8025 MC cartridge phono module was available to carry LP replay to excellency... and absorb your last pennies. Of course, the Cuvée Louise 1989 didn't exist in 1980 but you get my drift.

You may find the specs of the CL-34 here and custom images of its CL-32 predecessor here.