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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.

Marantz 7

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Last edited: pm. But that's not "our" stuff being bought, so I guess it doesn't matter So let the "jap" marantz 7 go.

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.

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Marantz 7

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New Posts. Would you feel better if it were in Australia or Germany? All that any of us have to do is go to a museum and visit the "Americian Wing". Which is what put Fisher,Scott,Marantz and now sadly Mcintosh into foreign hands.. With you to some extent in sentiment if not in argument Most people are satisfied to be bedazzeled by bells and whistles, the most of which they will never use, as opposed to the simple elegance of true quality. Some people think that saying "Jap" is a simple harmless abbreviation for Japanese. Without it, all I hear is dead quiet and wonderful music which is just as dynamic as any system with a linestage. If you want an improved new tube amp with new parts, build a new one. This was where I was exposed to all of the fundamental philosophies that I base my work on now. No longer its a classic oldtimer, now its a Frankenstein monster car with a new heart implanted, never been designed that way to drive. There is also a tape monitor, a three-position phono equalization selector Columbia, RIAA and 78 curves , and low-pass and high-pass filter switches. Most of them are quite noisy and less than transparent.

The Model 7 was a breakthrough in preamplifier design at its introduction in

This circuit is comprised of a zero-feedback phono preamplifier and EQ along with zero-feedback step-switch tone control, the Model 7 was endowed with two phono inputs, two tuner inputs, microphone, tape-head, auxiliary and a TV input. Decent imaging with a wide sound stage. Last edited: am. How about, for instance, s Tektronix oscilloscopes? There are also three pairs of unbalanced outputs and six AC receptacles sharing space with the six ECC83 at the rear of the unit. British Subjects that "Yankee" really means people from How about you "Aussies"? Classic Marantz tube components are competent certainly but they are collector items as you say. 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? Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. With you to some extent in sentiment if not in argument Allegro Lokalnie. Search titles only. Now, there are better. Who would have thought a straightforward question would lead to this?