Just to show I am not stuck only on gear made before 1978 I thought I'd post a pick of something I came across at a local thrift last week. The ES line was Sony's TOTL gear at the time and the G8AES was one of their best when it came out in the mid-late 90's. I already had the 222ES CD/SACD player so I thought for $13 I could get a matching receiver. Works like a champ and I am using it to drive my pair of KEF35's in a little corner set-up.