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This report is on a new pair of Marantz MA-9S2s, following up on the relevant post in the "Powerful Amplifiers" thread. I installed the amps in my usual stereo set-up, to make it easier to draw a bead on them. I still have less than 100 hours on th...
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The "Super
Mod"
The Bidat was originally designed with 3 separate crystal-based voltage controlled
oscillators. This was unique because we had the crystals specially made to be
'pull-able' ...
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OK, back to the meter on the Marantz: It actually reads +/- "exponentially", so "1/2 way" is more like 6 Watts, with the little spikes above "1/2" making it to 30 Watts. Not 300 Watts. This dispels the "mystery" of the ML2 playing the same stack at...
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OK, I took both amps to the "local" authorized repair station, only 1 hour and 45 minutes away, and after a long wait they told me Marantz had some sort patent fix for whatever it was, and they'd do it to both amps, but they had to wait for parts fro...
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Very wise, Roman... I - myself and my wallet - both must agree about your feelings and opinions... I've been into tube collecting since early '80s and what I guessed was dear (ITL 50.000 (about EUR 25) for an AD1 or "Luftwaffe" RE604 is now a TRUE ba...
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Romy,Well, in the course of a weekend I typically listen to a lot of music, but there are a few favorite CDs that I like to use when trying to evaluate things:Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev, Lincoln Mayorga, Sheffield Lab SL505The Lein...
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The MA-9S2 center channel turned out to be good enough that I have gone whole hog and bought another (new) pair. I think Marantz (Japan) has discontinued the amp (at least for US distribution), and I did not want to let them slip away. I will write...
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[quote]If it weren't for the fact that i'm loathe to rehabilitate my marantz gear i'd just as soon collect the parts for a 4-way melq setup over the next couple years and just listen to good music in the meantime. To reiterate; what i want to do righ...
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I owned a Luxman LV-117 which I found pretty "right" musically driving some 93dB/w/m JBL's I had eons ago. In its time, there was a LV-103 which was also well regarded, but that I never listened to, so I cannot talk about it. They can ...
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I finally got around to reading this issue. What suprised me even more than the horns were some of the comments in the interview / round table discussion they had with some dude from Wilson, one from Overture, and another guy. Big honchos...
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Romy, this is quite interesting; supposedly, the Marantz 10B was a knock-off of this, if I recall the lore correctly.Of course you will give this Grande Dame ('54 - '55 ?) a fair shot with some new parts, apropos? Especially new caps?I have out...
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It sound like the Emmlabs I heard before. A few things. I am not familiar with Marantz CD5004 but I am pretty sure that it is not TL0, in fact nothing most likely is. If you use TL0 then it will be very different result as TL0 push a LOT of more out ...
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It just ocurred to me to stir things up by posting here about the fact that my own DEBZs (somehow) absorbed 600W peaks during a recent Mahler 3 frenzy. I remember reading somewhere that some owners of the biggest Horning speakers would run them at 12...
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One of the reasons cited for using several smaller caps is rise/cycle time, versus 1 large cap. I understand it is also easier to wind the smaller caps to the desired high-zoot specs. Muse caps are said to have very low rates of failure, compared t...
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It's all about Program, right? What are you mostly watching/listening to? Make it easy on yourself. Look at the Marantz stuff, and do not expect top 2-channel sound quality. Surely, there is comfortable spot between slavish acceptance of inferior ...
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Or: Buy a new hammer and - for a while, anyway - everywhere you look, there's something that calls for a hammer.The electricity today was shite (thanks, Smart Grid!), but I none the less enjoyed some of the music I played. While playing Brahms' PC2...
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Thank you. This is something that I can look into locally, so that's great. Romy, does your Bidat have the upgrades that John Wright speaks of above, or is it virgin, so to speak? If the latter, do you find such claims - with upgrades, "the best DAC ...
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Agree that it seems more people complain about grid power in US. Also agree that a "good" power supply is just that. Still, it seems like a good idea to have a good power supply as part of a "good" amp (or, whatever...). Some of the "best" amps I hav...
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"High-efficiency electrostatic speakers"??? Is this not an oxymoron? My friend, Mark, who sometimes visits and posts in this form, has gigantic Sound Lab 'stats. He hates SS, and he uses VTL Wotan tube amps to drive them, 1.200W per channel, and it p...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]John, my technician, his name is Dariusz, tested the original laser and the aftermarket that we got from eBay
and he insisted that there is no difference and there was no need to change it
at all, at least in my case....
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Hi all, I have a t350 horn that I recently got out of an old cabinet at a junk shop which does not work. If I connect it to my Marantz 1030 amp it will only play very faintly as if you are listening to cheap earphones laying on...
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[quote user="Paul S"]"High-efficiency electrostatic speakers"??? Is this not an oxymoron? My friend, Mark, who sometimes visits and posts in this form, has gigantic Sound Lab 'stats. He hates SS, and he uses VTL Wotan tube amps to drive them, 1.200W ...
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Robin, I have had recurring thoughts about speaker/crossover/amp "compatibility", and I wound up on the shoals of back EMF. You pointedly mentioned BL, and, on the one hand, you are "right". At the same time, an "easier" (high BL) circuit can very qu...
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Thanks again for further explication, Bill. I appreciate that you are heavily invested in all this. Taking into account not only what I have been told but also what I've heard for myself, I think I can squeeze a bit more soundtage from my current set...
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My first German teacher was from Hamburg, and the second was from Hannover. To call them "language snobs" would be an understatement. You can bet that Bruckner would keep his voice down in their presence. Still, I know what you mean, Romy, even thoug...
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de Charlus, the wine guy I have mostly dealt with for years is supposedly from "The Bay Area", but he was staked by his parents to a business in Rancho Santa Fe, where he caters mostly to the nouveau riche, who happily gobble up anything Parker likes...
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It is one of those curious facts that Golden Ages generally occur quite early in the process of some domain of activity and then things slowly go downhill. In other words the Golden Age is followed by the Silver Age then the Bronze Age then the Slag ...
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Yes, the reality of the Marketplace is stark: ~20% of the people have some money to spend after necessities are met, and 80% have little or no "extra" money. It seems obvious that more "free" money is available as one moves up the income slope, and ...
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Hi there every one.A brief about system. Marantz transport---Acustic Arts DAC II-----Krell HRC preamp-----Krell FPB 600 class A amp---B&W 802.Previously i had a pair of carry 805 SET amps which drived Klipsch KLF 30 any how i was getting a good ...
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Too late now for points, but just the other day I tried to imagine your plan. and I was pretty close.Actually, it is a bit like what I have going now; 15" Eminence bass guitarr woofers in a sealed 3 cu ft cabinet,Oris 150 with 8" B&C midrange dr...
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