Technics ST-9600

1 9 7 6 1976
1 9 7 7 1977

Later export-only version of the ST-8600 in Technics' then current all-metal brown-ish black fashion.

With one feature added : Servo Tuning.
This ST function is solidary of the 3-step muting switch : when muting is off, Servo Tuning is off, when muting is on, Servo Tuning is on Auto, when muting is on "deep", Servo Tuning is on... auto.

I have no details about Servo Tuning (maybe an early version of Active Servo Loop ?) but it may have been added as an upper feature so as to compete a bit more with the finally not exported ST-9700 monster.

However, the latter was released in september 1974, more than a year before the november 1975 ST-8600... This would make the ST-9600 a two-year late lower-end export version of a lineup only partly exported, by way of an earlier in-between. That's much too Luxman to be true :)

The original ST-8600 had a "Technics by Panasonic" tag, the ST-9600 only had Technics and the little "National" logo, too.


As none of these sold too well in Japan, I guess Technics was left with a stock of unused chassis and made one export version to make room for the immediate future instead of stacking the past.

Technics ST-9600, image 1
Technics ST-9600 specifications
Title Value
FM section FM section
Sensitivity : 1.8µV (30dB s/n, 300 Ohm)
1.4µV (20dB s/n, 300 Ohm)
0.9µV (30dB s/n, 75 Ohm)
0.7µV (20dB s/n, 75 Ohm)
THD : 0,15% (mono)
0,25% (stereo)
S/N ratio : 75dB (mono)
??dB (stereo)
Frequency response : 20Hz...18Khz (+0,2 / -0,8dB)
Alternate channel selectivity : 85dB
Capture ratio : 1.0dB
Image rejection at 98MHz : 95dB
IF rehection at 98MHz : 105dB
Spurious response rejection at 98MHz : 100dB
AM suppression : 55dB
Stereo separation : 45dB (1Khz)
35dB (10Khz)
Leak carrier : -65dB (19Khz)
AM section AM section
Sensitivity : 30µV
Selectivity : 25dB
Image rejection at 1Khz 80dB
IF rejection at 1Khz : 85dB
General General
Output voltage : 0,077...1,55V (variable)
0,6V (fixed)
PC : 22W
Dimensions : 45x 17,3 x 36,2cm
Weight : 8,7kg.
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