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Sherwood Newcastle A-965 Power Amplifier Quote from a pervious ad - Ignore the name, this is an extremely well-built, effortless sounding 7 channel amplifier. The Newcastle range was Sherwood’s premium offering and bears no resemblance to the cheap mid-fi Sherwood stuff that JB sold for years. Retailed for $1,500 USD when new (I believe around $3,000 AUD). This unit weighs in at over 30kg with dual toroidal transformers and discrete mono-block-style amplifiers for each channel. Capable of outputting 100 W at 8 ohms with all channels driven, this amp is perfect for a big home theatre setup or
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Sherwood Newcastle is a descendant brand of Sherwood Electronic Laboratories, which was founded in Chicago in 1953 by engineer Ed Miller and partner John Snow. The original Sherwood built its reputation in the golden age of American hi-fi, especially through amplifiers and FM tuners, before the company changed ownership and the Sherwood name was later revived under Korean parent company Inkel as the Sherwood Newcastle line.
Sherwood Newcastle is best known for AV receivers, home-theater amplifiers, and related surround-sound electronics rather than vinyl or portable audio. The name was used for a more premium tier within the Sherwood range, aimed at buyers who wanted feature-rich multichannel components with a higher-end positioning than mass-market budget receivers.
In market terms, Sherwood Newcastle sits in the mid-tier to upper-mid-tier home-theater segment, with more appeal to pragmatic enthusiasts than to luxury buyers. It does not have the broad contemporary prestige of flagship audiophile brands, but the Sherwood name still carries genuine vintage credibility from its original U.S. hi-fi era, which gives the brand a stronger heritage profile than many modern AV labels.
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