Harman Kardon Model Two Hundred Receiver - 1967
A friend at work gave me an old Harman Kardon Model Two Hundred Receiver that he bought new in 1967. He said he used it for years and at some point it developed a hum or something. He said he threw it in the attic and hasn’t seen it in 10 or 20 years!
He was asked me if I wanted it. So I said yeah, why not? I assumed it had tubes.
Well, I got it and opened it up today. Its solid state, point to point wired with two small OPT’s on the output with taps for 4 and 8 ohm operation. It has a MM phone section, an FM tuner, headphone section and an Auxiliary/Tape input and a tape output. It has four mosfets mounted on the back (NO heatsinks) with little plastic caps covering them that are removable with two screws each. They are Motorola brand. It has a beautiful walnut body that the standard black metal component slides into. The entire piece is in great condition and was well wrapped when he brought it in the office, said it had been the whole time (this guy is very neat!). The layout is small and simple and everything is separated into groups of components. West German made boards holding components with wire connecting everything. No traces, all point to point. Looks hand made. Says it’s made in Plainview, Long Island, New York (not far from where I grew up). Its not very big or heavy.
The only thing that looks bad are the caps. They are Mundorf caps, like 4 or 5 of them of varying sizes in a row. They have orange cardboard bodies and brown tops. At least two of them seem to have leaked.
I power it up and it looked fine, it lit up and didn’t smell (or smoke). I didn’t hook up any speakers, I didn’t have any to use with me in the office.
I searched the internet a bit and didn’t find anything about it.
Anyone ever have one or similar?
How many watts do you think it is?
Is it any good?
