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A new 'I told ya so' from Fleabay. See who's Number One
deepee99- Posts : 2244
Join date : 2012-05-23
Location : Wallace, Idaho
peterh- Posts : 1833
Join date : 2012-12-25
Location : gothenburg, sweden
wildiowa- Posts : 237
Join date : 2012-03-19
Have never had a Mac but always thought they were over-hyped and over priced. If I have the $$ it's the Citation II. For performance and price it's the Dynas. One man's opinion...
Doctor Hugocat- Posts : 92
Join date : 2015-08-19
Location : Los Angeles CA
Interesting, thanks for posting: I can't even imagine how much a Marantz 8B would be anymore......
deepee99- Posts : 2244
Join date : 2012-05-23
Location : Wallace, Idaho
Although Frank McIntosh and Saul Marantz did bring out some beautiful gear in their days, by the 1970s when I got seriously into hi-fi it struck me as more a cosmetic battle. The Big Blue Meters on the Macs versus that cool oscilloscope on the brushed-stainless Marantz tuners. Both were cool looking but I think by then they had already lost the technological edge to the Hafler gang and were just going for market share.
I owned a Mac C-28 preamp with an MC-2125 power amp (all solid state), beautiful looking rack, but they always sounded a bit muddy, even with the Power-Guard feature turned off, and hooked up to their ML-1C speakers with the optional but required equalizer, and that was when my hearing was very good. The experience pushed me into the path of a swerving truck marked Dynaco ...
I owned a Mac C-28 preamp with an MC-2125 power amp (all solid state), beautiful looking rack, but they always sounded a bit muddy, even with the Power-Guard feature turned off, and hooked up to their ML-1C speakers with the optional but required equalizer, and that was when my hearing was very good. The experience pushed me into the path of a swerving truck marked Dynaco ...
Doctor Hugocat- Posts : 92
Join date : 2015-08-19
Location : Los Angeles CA
Yes, I had a Marantz Model 19 receiver a few years back:L got it for an unbelievable 100 British Pounds in the UK and brought it with me when I moved to the USA. It had the 'scope on the tuner and is now lauded as one of their great solid-state receivers. Honestly I never liked it much: thought it was muddy and boring. Sold it for a ridiculous $1200 on eBay. The buyer was even pleased. Maybe I was missing something!
deepee99- Posts : 2244
Join date : 2012-05-23
Location : Wallace, Idaho
No, he was. Surprised the scope even still works. Those CRTs were usually the first to go. I think the popularity of Macs and Marantzs had a lot to do with the fact that all of us wanted something looking like the front panel display of a B-747 because it looked cool to chicks that we could operate all those buttons and dials and stuff.Doctor Hugocat wrote:Yes, I had a Marantz Model 19 receiver a few years back:L got it for an unbelievable 100 British Pounds in the UK and brought it with me when I moved to the USA. It had the 'scope on the tuner and is now lauded as one of their great solid-state receivers. Honestly I never liked it much: thought it was muddy and boring. Sold it for a ridiculous $1200 on eBay. The buyer was even pleased. Maybe I was missing something!
Music is for the most part to be listened to, not watch, unless maybe it's a live Procul Harum concert in Denmark or you're in Leonard Bernstein's or Von Karajan's front row. Watching the glow of tubes in the darkness of a winter evening is all the visual I need.
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