Harman/Kardon Citation Receiver

July
1 9 7 7 july 1977
1 9 7 8 1978

A truly rare rarity, the result of a 3-year effort at making a luxurious, rosewodd-embedded, high-end receiver incorporating Harman/Kardon's traditional high points like dual transformers, very strict square-wave response and ample power reserve to drive you and your neighbours deaf in a jiffy.

Also in a 4-Channel output for "future FM quadraphonic brodcasts" and a thre-frequency tone control.
With a nice design tweak taking shape of the duplicated dialing scale and... and... feather-touch source selectors !

This obviously was a (very) limited edition and the actual production run remains a mystery. However, given the launch date (july 1977) the Citation Receiver should already be into the Beatrice Food ownership / Shin Shirasuna production.
Anybody ?


The images shwon here were kindly sent to me years ago by... by... Although I have kept all TVK eMail correspondance since 2003, I surprisingly don't have a trace of whom it was !
If it is you, please contact me again for proper thanks and credits !!

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Harman/Kardon Citation Receiver specifications
Title Value
Output power : 2x 85W (8 Ohm, 20Hz...20Khz)
2x 105W (DIN 45500, 8 Ohm)
2x 130W (DIN 45500, 4 Ohm)
THD : < 0,15%
IMD : < 0,12%
Frequency response : 4Hz...100Khz
Power bandwidth : 10Hz...50Khz
Residual noise : -95dB
Damping factor : 50
Slew rate : > 10V /µs
Rise time : < 1,5µs
Square-wave tilt : < 5%
Phono inputs : < 2,6mV (phono 1 & 2)
Phono max. level : > 155mV (phono 1 & 2)
RIAA accuracy : ± 1dB
Line inputs : 125mV (aux 1 & 2, tape 1 & 2)
S/N ratio : 70dB (phono)
73dB (lines)
FM sensibility : 10,5dBf (1,9µV, mono)
FM quieting : 15,8dBf (3,4µV, mono)
FM S/N ratio : 73dB (mono)
FM THD : 0,4% (stereo)
FM stereo separation : 40dB
FM selectivity : 65dB
Dimensions : 50,2 x 14,5 x 43,8cm
Weight : 26,6kg.
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