The last and most elaborate of the SP line - a two-chassis valve preamplifier from 1990 at ¥1.25 million.
Valve equipment: 400-500 V is present on the plates and stored in the supply after switch-off. ARC units are valve-matched at the factory - replacement sets must be bought as matched quads/pairs.
Marks that can be entered for this maker: Model / catalogue number, Model / catalogue number, British capacitor code (Hunts, Mullard), Japanese capacitor code (Nichicon, Chemi-Con, ELNA), EIA component code.
Nothing predates 1990; components only push the date later.
Sold-listing reading: fair $2,500, good $2,500, excellent $2,500 USD · 1 sold listings (thin sample — indicative only) · as of 2026-10-17. Asking prices only - these are live listings, not completed sales. 1 listing(s) in USD observed on 2026-10-17 via the HiFi Shark marketplace aggregator; with fewer than three observations the same min/median/max is recorded as an estimate, not as an asking aggregate, which is a reading of the ask spread, not a condition grading.
Evidence: Audio Heritage (JP) — period catalogue sheets · HiFi Shark — live listings aggregator