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I mean an unnecessary number of controls and switches.
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'nuff said.
all the best,
mrh
Just happened to see this one on a popular auction site yesterday :-P
all the best,
mrh
Almost as much fun as the marantz Escotec PM-9.
A wonderland of interconnected intermittent wire connections. It was a love hate relationship with that premap. LORD was I happy to see that thing go!!!!!
About 1983, and I didn't know anything about vintage tube gear, I saw an ad for a Marantz 7, 8B, 10B, and some non/descript turntable / all for $200. It was in a local newspaper. I knew enough that I didn't want the tt. Bought the Marantz trio for $150!
Hooked it up and had enough sense to think, "Damn, this sounds good!"
Sold it all for $2200. That got me going.,,,
Stereo was just coming out. My parents had a console Airline (Montgomery Ward) AM-FM radio with a mono record changer dating from 1948. I somehow discovered that the only thing that made a stereo record player different from mono was the stereo cartridge, which was able to pick up both channels of the stereo record groove, and of course, the vinyl stereo recording. I did, however, need a right channel, both the amp and speaker.I ordered up a high-output crystal stereo cartridge (I think about $4 at Allied Radio). These were even higher output than ceramic cartridges. The right channel was a kid-style portable manual tone arm record player, from which I disconnected the cartridge wires from the portable's cartridge. I hooked two of the four terminals on the stereo cartridge to the tone-arm wires on the Wards console. I took a long pair of wires and connected them on one end to the other two terminals on the stereo cartridge, and the other ends to the two tone-arm wires on the little portable, which I placed about 8 ft from the console and its speaker.
There was an 8-inch full-range speaker in the Wards console, but just a little horizontal 4-incher built into the portable.
Obviously, my speakers were mis-matched, with most of the bass coming from the left channel console with the bigger 8-inch full range speaker, but surprisingly, this all worked, sort of.
The crystal cartridge fit into the tone arm of the 1948 console and had enough output so I was able to get a decent signal from it to the portable tone-arm wires for the right channel. Balance, of course, was handled simply by adjusting the volume on each unit. The fact that the little 4-inch speaker on the portable produced mainly the higher notes was not as big an issue as it might first seem, as the higher frequencies are mostly responsible for the directional effect in stereo (though I did not fully appreciate that at age 12). This was all-tube amplification, and the little amplifier in the portable was a two-tube unit, I think.
Even way back, I was able to come up with creative ideas within a very tight budget! :-)
Edits: 04/03/15
The Nakamichi rack!
Dave
...in the link.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
I'd be tempted if my wife wouldn't murder me if I brought it home!
Dave
It was more intimidating than my SX-750, but I'm pretty sure all the
controls and switches were necessary, or at least served a purpose.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
And they wanted to sell me a 7.1.....
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
Edits: 04/02/15
but the biggest PIA I ever met.
forsell TT and arm . Even HP with all his staff gave up on the TT. Nice when it ran the magazine said, Spent more time down than up and the fit and finish well sucked where it was necessary
The Revox A720 has both of the Yamahas beat! :)
Later Gator,
Dave
I expect it is a good sounding piece though. I have a Revox linear tracking turntable I am planning to bring back to life.
Dave
Yamaha's C1 was their TOTL preamp at the time. The step-down C2a (with far fewer gizmos) sounded quite a bit better.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
I have their lower end CA610II and for a 40 watt amp and a lower than middle of the line unit is has a large number of controls, knobs and features. Only missing a preamp output/amp input. Definitely from the more the merrier marketing camp.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
I have the C2ax, which sounds great, but that one does look cool!
Dave
;-)
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
I have seen that before , but it is still funny!
Dave
the remote had so many buttons that some advise against it. It has some knobs that I have never seen before...like 2 center speakers or a center subwoofer. An adjustable turntable input is cool though. It also has an adjustment for treble, bass AND midrange...
IDK, my 3-way active cross over has about that many knobs by itself...:)
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
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