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Luxman first imported its power amps, preamps, and integrated amps into this country in 1975. Its apparent "target" (and the brand whose products it most clearly emulated) was McIntosh. Lux's flagship product at the time was a huge (and heavy at 130 pounds) 300-watts-per-channel power amplifier — a dagger aimed at the heart of the legendary McIntosh MC2300.
Among those products, too, were units that played for the sentiments of the emerging "high-end" audio market. One preamp and two mono power amps were vacuum tube-based designs.
As the 1980s arrived, Lux repositioned itself in the U.S., aiming primarily at what the high-end partisans came to call "mid-fi" (an undeserved perjoritive).
Now that home theater is stealing the show from hobbyist audio, I can't say that a Lux receiver has any real counterparts in the modern world.
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