This sale is for a rare Pontus IC-200R Stereo Receiver in excellent condition and proper working order. Super build quality and excellent sound. A nice surprise from a relatively unknown brand. From what I can gather this was a high end brand made in Korea in the 70\'s that used excellent components. We conservatively estimate this to be between 20 - 30 watts RMS and possibly more.
Exerpt from the STEREO CLUB website... as the manager of a high-end stereo store in the Syracuse, NY area in the late 70\'s, early 1980\'s I can assure you Pontus was a legit manufacturer, and their equipment wasn\'t half bad! We had a complete line; receivers of various wattages, tuner, integrated amplifier and maybe, if I remember right, a cassette deck. We laughed at the name at the time since the \'biggies\' were the Pioneer\'s, Kenwoods, Marantz and such were thought to be the only equipment worth anything. But we also sold Philips and Mitsubishi as well as high end like Threshold, Bryston, Adcom, B&W and so on, so odd brand names were not unusual. In fact, we used Pontus integrated amps in our sound rooms to demonstrate speakers because we felt they were that clean. Clean and cheap high power. One day we opened up a Pontus receiver and were surprised to find fully discrete amplifier components, and good quality semi-conductors at that! Remember at that time, the large scale integrated circuit amplifier blocks were the norm and some of the cheaper stuff used stereo integrated blocks. We sold many \"systems\" built around Pontus equipment and had very few problems and virtually no returns. I would say that\'s a pretty good record. If I was a collector I would definitely have a piece of Pontus equipment!MAY 7, 2012 AT 6:10 PM

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