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In Reply to: Re: Accuphase T-100 Tuner posted by abc on April 23, 1999 at 01:43:50:
abc,I've yet to experience Accuphase power stages, more's the pity. Older Accuphase pieces are few and far between over here and I believe for some years, there was no UK distributer - although that situation has now been addressed. At the last major UK hi-fi show (September/October '98 Renaisance Hotel/Heathrow)I'm sure I briefly heard a monster Accuphase amp (being demonstrated by the distributer) driving a pair of Magnaplaners - one of the better/best sounds of the show. It would be nice to come across a matching UK spec T-300... one day perhaps.
Turning to a subjective comparison between the three classic tuners mentioned, being three of the best analogue tuners ever produced in my opinion, surely, 'Super Tuners':
I found the MR78 the most enjoyable to use. I adored this 1970's styling statement. Here in the UK (I believe) the general consensus of opinion is to view 70's domestic architecture with derision and disdain - a 'dead' period. By contrast, to me the MR78 was Mission Control at Cape Canaveral, it was the space race and Apollo (gawd knows what number) and, there were men on the moon and, anything and everyhing was technically possible and, the power of the computer had been unleashed and and, and; McIntosh had designed arguably the most sensitive and selective tuner ever built in the history of the analogue tuner...and it was 1972 and I was 11 years old...WOW.
I've yet to hear a tuner with the same level of prodigious bass and conversely almost bandwidth limited top end, adding up to an idiosyncratic smooooth peaches 'n' cream sound.
Name me a 70's contemporary tuner that displays equal or higher quality internal construction than the CT7000. This was IMO, the swansong statement of Yamaha. This Japanese hi-fi company took on the world with the CT7000 and - won. Stylistically this was a minimal tuner before 'minimal' was even 'in'. Jeese, up until 6 months ago I was living in a heavily 'minimal' influenced home, 25 plus years later.
The sound of a CT7000 is almost distortionless, measured and neutral. The typically tizzy Japaneese top end is sorted. Initially the sound does not impress, It is only after a period of time that the almost understated, uncoloured, accurate presentation wins through.
And so to the T-100. Styling-wise, at first sight, a noticeable lack of any. This is a 'no fuss and nonsense' laboratory grade functional piece of equipment. Perhaps the nearest approach to industrial serviceability and form follows function in domestic tuners. This was 70's post-modernist(?) modular construction.
Soundwise the T-100 is all about bandwidth, clarity, detail and dynamics. It is just effervescent. 'Alka Seltser' (sp).
So, I guess that's what I hear/heard, but then alas. I'm just another mug punter and no doubt like you, I've been in the presence of other mug punters who appear to have experienced a miracle, or second coming, upon swapping a bit of speaker wire... what can I say,
FW
PS
I'm on diet Coke tonight... (and my spellings' still lousy) C'est la vie.
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