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In Reply to: RE: Citation V and Marantz 8b question posted by AJ on January 5, 2015 at 10:58:35:
This is a McShane upgraded mc240. Notice the only think you see are better quality capacitors and they were soldered in and in the case of the filter caps they were put in with GOOP.This is a stock mc240
AJ
Once again too many confuse upgrades with modifications. Modifying is where you change the circuitry to where it totally changes the sonic character of the amp or preamp.
Upgrading is what most people do by keeping the stock appearance,not drilling holes or making big holes in the chassis,but simply replacing old worn out capacitors and out of tolerance resistors and gluing the new filter caps in where you took out the old twist loc caps. This way you can always out it back to original with no damage whatsoever.
Now as you can see everything in this amp can be put back to the old original worn out caps that make the amp perform mediocre at best or you can maintain a pretty much stock appearance with all the same circuitry other than a better grounding and enjoy a much improved amp as far as clarity and bass go. Fifty year old caps just cannot do these relics justice and,they are hard on the transformers because of the excessive current due too old leaky caps.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Citation V and Marantz 8b question - Michael Samra 12:35:44 01/05/15 (2)
- RE: Citation V and Marantz 8b question - AJ 13:25:30 01/05/15 (1)
- RE: Citation V and Marantz 8b question - airtime 15:32:09 01/05/15 (0)
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