Vintage Mitsubishi / MGA Separates question

I am one of the few that have a Mitsubishi preamp, amp and tuner in the collection! In Japan these components carried the Diatone label. And considered as desirable high-end gear! Sound quality excellent! Right at this moment I'm using the DA-F10 tuner to listen to NPR  on 89.7 FM WUSF Tampa.

I wish I had a pair of the Mitsubishi speakers but alas, I already have too many speakers - and not enough space!

If I had nothing else I could happily live with the Mitsubishi gear! It is musically satisfying! Now if it came with four-figure price tags the audiophile snobs would like it more! 

Mitsubishi/Diatone in the late '70s never caught on with American audiophiles. Who preferred to buy American products - unlike today! I myself bought a Son of Ampzilla for $430 - a bit less than the Mitsubishi amps.

I am not familiar with the MGA brand - but I assume it was Mitsubishi's lower-tier line at lower cost. A need for that because the upper-tier gear was quite pricey for the time (mid-to-late '70s).

Japanese gear in the late '70s was considered by American audiophiles to be not as good or desirable as American or British. Mitsubishi had a tough time with the US high-end market. And the MGA brand didn't do much better! Competition was stiff with the well-establishrd Jap companies like Pioneer, Technics, Yamaha, Marantz ...

@islandmandan : that was the separate preamp and power amp - which I have! The two fitted together but could be used and sold individually. There was also a separate preamp/tuner available, along with the AM/FM tuners. The power amp came in two models - 100wpc and 150wpc (this I have). Excellent gear for the price then - about $450 each in 1977-78! I worked at a high-end store in CT that carried the line, including the speakers.

The store I worked at (Audiocom) didn't carry the lower-tier MGA line, but it could be ordered from the importer.