Yamaha Amp Nostalgia


I remember the Yamaha C4 and M4 with some nostalgia, as they were beyond my high school student budget, and quite beautiful with their back lit power and speaker selector switches.

20 years later, they seem to be reasonably well bid on the used market, although the lamp lights are often burned out and not easy to replace, apparently.

So last week, I impulsively bought an M2, because it looked even more powerful and more interesting than the M4, and the one I found seemed to be in good shape with working lights.

There is not much info on the web - does anyone know anything about this amp?

Thank you.
cwlondon
Elevick

Interesting you mention those amps - I thought only the B2, M4 and M2 were the real deal, and the ones you mention were all more mass produced.
I like vintage Yamaha amps too. while i do not have an M2 or any of its cousins, I do own a CA-2010 from the 1977 era. Pix posted in my bedroom system. Gorgeous amp with VU meters. Not meant to drive a hard load & it seems that, back in those, days hard-to-drive speakers did not exist or were very uncommon.
I own Yamaha C-600 and C-800 amps, and they're the real .

Better with warm speaker..

Really cheap on the used market too.
Yamaha used to make some really cool stuff...
Cwlondon,the entire M series was class A rated for the first 10% or so. The 40-80 series may have been more mass produced with cheaper parts and mediocre circuit boards but they sounded great and had unbelievable amounts of power. Most of them had A/B/C speaker selectors and volume controls built in.

I loved modding this series.
I remember owning a Yamaha A1 Integrated amp - it was a very sweet sounding amp - Pure Class A - and a very attractive design. It was a step up the usual Sansui/Marantz/SAE integrateds at that time. I also had the matching casste deck - it was great as well (Dolby C, green LEDs instead of VU Meters) - a honey!!