STA-2080 Receiver

This is a beautiful sounding, very powerful brute
... driving Realistic Mach Ones (40-4029) and Realistic Mach Twos (40-4032/a)
with authority and absolutely superb defintion across the entire audio spectrum.



This unit is conservatively rated at 80 watts/channel and
the power meters go to 150 watts output display.
It sounds very powerful, clean and airy.
I'm asked what difference in sound a more powerful amp makes in an already efficient system
and in my opinion air and ambience are the rewards.



In researching this piece I learned that Radio Shack used at least 3 or 4 suppliers for receiver manufacture.
I was pretty sure (no clues inside) that this was made by Fostex
but the thick, green edged glass tuner scale cover reminds me more of Onkyo.
I found this information on a site that specializes in evaluating the tuner section of many receivers:
STA-2080 - This 80 watt per channel analog receiver has 4 large analog meters
running across the top, and just flat-out looks fabulous.
It also performs well. The tuner has 4 gangs and 3 ceramic filters.
Used as a standalone tuner via its line-out jacks, it sounds surprisingly good-
better than many standalone tuners.
This is probably due to the MOSFETs used in the preamp section.
It mods very well, and is more than respectable after adding a second bandwidth.
Not as tubby-sounding as earlier Realistic analog receivers.