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Marantz 7

I don't want to start a price-flame war, but I'm simply curious as to why Marantz 7 preamps command such high prices compared to other tube preamps of their era. I've looked at a schematic for the Marantz preamp, and it appears to me to be a well-implemented, but fairly conventional, design. I have seen one opened up for service, before, though I've never heard one in operation, and the only unusual thing I noticed was the placement of the tubes. In fact, it doesn't seem to differ too much in terms of circuit design from the McIntosh C22 preamp, which I've seen offered at somewhat lower prices. For that matter, it wouldn't be hard to duplicate the Marantz design. Power amps are harder to copy due to the output transformers, but preamps are generally built from commonly available parts. So, are the high prices just due to collectors value--the thrill one gets from owning something with a certain name and number on it--or is there something else that I'm missing? Regards, David Anderson -- I refuse to accept any unauthorized or unsolicited E-mail communications. By Sec. Fred AudioNow! I do need a new face plate and knobs though.

You'd think from the tone that every piece of Marantz or GE equipment that is sent to Japan winds up being marantz 7 up into little pieces, then formed into incendiary bombs to be dropped onto the houses of U. While we're at it we should return Texas to Mexico, marantz 7, Everything west of the Mississippi to the French, and then all of the Americas to the Lakota, marantz 7, Navajo, Cherokee, Aztec, Incas, Olmec, and all of the other nations that fall under the blanket term of "Native American. Related posts.

Words by Rafe Arnott. Photos credited individually. Each column will examine an archetype of high fidelity and investigate its development, design, impact and legacy. Postwar America; triumphant, affluent, dizzy with the pace of invention and innovation, saw a revelation in high fidelity with the advent of the monophonic vinyl record in But for commercial artist, industrial designer and electronics engineer Marantz, nothing commercially available was good enough — particularly when it came to the issue of a preamplifier dealing effectively with the many disparate phonographic equalization curves utilized by record labels at the time. So, he took it upon himself to design one incorporating multiple EQ curves, and following the DIY success of the Consolette, the Marantz Model 1 was created. While several other components preamps, power amplifiers and electronic crossovers followed the Model 1 in quick succession, it was the Model 7 Stereo Preamplifier which came to market in late that would garner the distinction of being one of the most legendary components in the history of home audio.

The Model 7 was a breakthrough in preamplifier design at its introduction in In The front panel featured an array of four knobs on each side flanking four toggle switches. The right-side knobs provided independent bass and treble adjustment for each channel. The center toggle switches were tape monitor, a three-position phono equalization switch 78, Columbia, RIAA , and high- and low-pass filters. Minimalism in preamplifier design had clearly not yet taken hold.

Marantz 7

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Marantz has the legend and the pedigree, largely derived from the 10B, that makes the other components in that series valuable. Getting hissy about it is chicken-shit. With you to some extent in sentiment if not in argument Speaking as an American of part-Japanese ancestry, I find your use of the term "Jap" to be highly offensive and is no more acceptable than referring to an African-American as being a 6-letter word starting with the letter N. Tim Reese. Besides, if one were to follow the advice of the "don't share at any cost" camp, we'll soon see our friends in Britain suddenly less willing to sell Mullards and G. Very neutral, with a tight bottom end and transparent top. Well, there you go. Cs to us. While McIntosh, Leak, Sugden and other manufacturers also featured this build style, it is this particular combination of metal and wood which tends to confer palpitations within the breast of vintage hi-fi acolytes if spotted in the wild. Now, there are better. There are better. Even those whose fortunes have not been negatively impacted in the economic crises have cut back on their purchases of goods overseas. Click to expand

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Hey; I'd like to second Kevin Deal's comments and add my own: As much as you would like to see the stereos, cars, motorcycles, other icons of our culture remain in the driveways and living rooms of red-blooded 'Mericans like you and me, that's price of doing business. This of course because coming across one without the aforementioned price tag would be as likely as a hen having teeth. Isn't that sad. CK Audio. Personally I think it would be a fair trade if we all gave back everything we bought from each other and called it square. He opened a factory in Woodside, NYC to handle the backlog of demand and the Marantz Company became a bona fide in Would I spend that kind of money? Save Delete Save any hifi search on your hifishark. Thread starter F1 Start date pm. Are there any Japanese persons out there who are offended by the word "Jap"? By Sec. Tim Reese. Audio Graffiti. OLX Portugal. We can start by emptying out the museums and returning all the mummies to Egypt and all the above-mentioned Ming vases to China.