I use my late grandad’s Harman-Kardan Stereo Festival II receiver from the 1960’s, taking a signal from an Elac turntable of the same vintage, and feeding into similarly old Jensen speakers. My grandad was an acoustical (mechanical) engineer with Bell Laboratories. I like to listen to the “Hey Jude” album by the Beatles, and “Hot Rocks” by the Rolling Stones, among other recordings, on this system. The FM tuner is nice too. Maybe someday I will try Lejonklou!!

Hi Allerdings and welcome to the forum. It looks like HK made several Festival II receivers but they do mostly appear to be tube units which can be fun. I have occasionally worked on Elac turntables and with a decent cartridge they can certainly make a musical sound. It sounds like a pretty neat vintage system. Glad you are enjoying it.

That's sounds like a fun vintage system, and welcome to the forum!

Cheers

Harman-Kardan had some good receivers in the 80s. One of them we used for Dayton Whrigt XG10 electrostats, with a DW SPA preamp. The name of the receiver has been lost. Since the preamp and power amp were connected by bridges, we used the power amp, which was later replaced by the NAIM Nap 250. Was a great system.

Actually, there was a time when I had a Harman-Kardan stereo receiver, and I think it was part tube and part solid state. It may have been 25 watts per channel, although I don't remember the model number. But in any case, it sounded really good. I ended up selling it when I began going into separate components.