anyone heard of Luxman amp.pls help

For what it is worth, the new (last several years) stuff from Luxman is very high quality and sounds great. It also runs decent bucks.

A link to their current products can be found here. I do not know how many of these products are available outside of Japan but Japanese solid-state afficionados actively search out the B10 and M10 and M7f amps and the C10 and C7f preamps in the used market, and they certainly don't last long when they come out.

The company of Luxman is actually owned by a Japanese company called e-Lux which has as its main business domain name registration and internet billing services. Audio product sales was about 20% of revenue last year.

Sean,
The company itself has been around in some form for several decades so I'm not so sure that there are that many completely "original" employees :^) but I imagine that it's much like other smaller Japanese audio companies - the employees/facilities/philosophy stay the same but the boss changes - something which has happened to a horde of them: Kenwood, Nakamichi, Denon, Marantz, FR, Akai, SAEC, MicroSeiki, and others... Still others had their hey-day and then moved down-market or reduced operations.

I am curious though so will see what I can find out by calling the company. If anything, I'd almost see the possibility they could eventually be bought out by D&M Holdings, the firm which was established after the merger of Marantz and Denon not long after Ripplewood effectively took over management control of Nippon Columbia (which owned Denon before that). Luxman sales are so low globally that it might make sense.

Dazedandconfused, I think sogood51 is probably right on the specs. I cannot find the L-2 in the product history of Luxman on their Japanese site but the L-1 and L-3 are both listed as having been 35Wx2. The time is about right too as the L-1 went on sale in August 1980.

Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the GREAT link Sogood51! Lots of interesting stuff - Fidelity Research info in English is tough to come by. Many Luxman products which Luxman itself does not have on its own page.