There is a review in the current March '12 issue of Stereophile where the reviewer gives a completely unrestored Marantz 8B a fair-good review.His complaints were excessive hang time,slow sounding,and only fair imaging.The whole time that I was reading the review I was thinking that the amp. is being judged with old leaky power supply and coupling caps.I would be interested to know how fully restored 50 yr.old amps hold up against new tube amps.It doesn't seem like a fair review with out of spec.components.
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Topic - Marantz 8B In Stereophile - rosendds@frontiernet.net 08:24:34 02/13/12 (30)
- umm.. that thing looks like a BOAT ANCHOR! - centaurus3200 14:05:51 08/29/12 (0)
- Who on earth needs Stereophile????? - johnmil 06:36:24 02/18/12 (0)
- Interesting review - Ross 20:33:52 02/17/12 (0)
- Restoration vs collecability value - airtime 09:33:45 02/15/12 (3)
- RE: Restoration vs collecability value - dls123 13:44:55 02/15/12 (2)
- RE: Restoration vs collecability value - rosendds@frontiernet.net 13:59:26 02/15/12 (1)
- RE: Restoration vs collecability value - Crazy Dave 08:56:08 02/17/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - moffat 09:00:55 02/15/12 (0)
- Great news!! - henrybasstardo 18:37:43 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - Marantzguy 15:38:10 02/13/12 (2)
- If I were you... - Crazy Dave 08:49:45 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - rosendds@frontiernet.net 18:20:14 02/13/12 (0)
- Ahh, the 8B (Caution, reminiscing ahead) - 1973shovel 14:51:37 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - airtime 14:40:52 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - Eli Duttman 09:00:13 02/13/12 (15)
- OT… BTW, I had the chanced to audition both.... - kootenay 12:38:00 02/13/12 (4)
- RE: OT - unclestu 13:30:44 02/13/12 (1)
- The Marantz 9 re-issue came in the store brand... - kootenay 14:47:46 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: OT… BTW, I had the chanced to audition both.... - rosendds@frontiernet.net 12:44:14 02/13/12 (1)
- Yes, it's the output transformers which make the difference - 1973shovel 14:03:10 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B shows - unclestu 11:30:58 02/13/12 (1)
- RE: Marantz 8B shows - Eli Duttman 11:54:19 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - Crazy Dave 11:02:37 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - Lee of Omaha 10:08:29 02/13/12 (6)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - dls123 23:24:41 02/14/12 (2)
- FWIW, most of the signal caps were early polyesters with a few bumble bees for good measure (nt) - Steve O 19:32:54 02/16/12 (1)
- RE: FWIW, most of the signal caps were early polyesters with a few bumble bees for good measure (nt) - dls123 07:19:53 02/17/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - Steve O 13:16:23 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - Eli Duttman 11:47:18 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: Marantz 8B In Stereophile - rosendds@frontiernet.net 10:47:10 02/13/12 (0)