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HK
715
HK 725
HK 770
HK 775
HK 705
A lot of h/k's products before and even more after the 700 series were made by the Shin Shirasuna Corporation. The 700s were available in some exotic markets under the Silver brand : same components, tiny minor visual changes, different monikers and Silver branding. I even have an italian 1980 ad with the president of Shin Shirasuna, Mr Makoto Shirasuna, advertising his company founded in 1947 with a contemporary product - namely : the 700s in Silver guise :)
Shin Shirasuna also built the contemporary Citation XX, XXP, X-I and X-II and most of h/k's 1980s products as well.
Electronically designed
as per Dr. Matti Ottala's precepts
regarding bandwidth, NFB and TIM.
OK - but with Dr. Robert Odell, too.
According to the lit', Odell was in the Navy in 1969 and modded his HK Citation 11 and 12 during his spare time ; he
managed to show his upgraded HKs to Sidney Harman and his mods were
integrated to the production models! Odell was subsequently hired
as a consultant, working on other HK models such as the 670, 560,
450, 505 and 503. And the 700 series :)
700 series : super-high bandwidth, swift
slew-rates, discrete components only, DC design and minimal use
of NFB make for a nice (and rare) low-TIM set of separates.
In
Japan, these separates had an added letter prefix : P725 /
M770 /
T715 /
T710 /
C705 /
A750.
I believe the T710
tuner and A750
integrated to no have been available in many places ; the 775
monoblock seemingly wasn't made available in Japan (?) MSRPs
for all these ranged from 36,000¥ (T710)
to 99,800¥ (M770) - not high-end
audio by japanese standards but the 770 and 775 seem to still be
quite worth lending an ear. |