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In Reply to: The Monster Receiver site is sorta back! posted by pete the bully on April 13, 2007 at 09:54:19:
You'd think the author of the site had never heard of Phase Linear, Dunlap-Clarke, GAS, Threshold, etc.
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The site is a celebration of monster receivers only. The original site owner, Chris, included TOTL receivers he owns. He has quite the remarkable collection.
Chris took the site down and it is now being rebuilt by several others.
I find some comments regarding separates to be incorrect....to produce a bigger, more powerful, more feature-laden, and, generally, more expensive, Stereo Receiver than had ever gone before. Strangely, this phenomenon didn't happen with separates, just Receivers.
Sure it did. I clearly remember the earliest ads for the Phase Linear 700 with a picture of Stravinksky on it.
Heck, if that were the objective, then the Marantz 19 and even the lower priced 18 should be listed. Few receivers hit the price of a 19 even the totl during the power wars. As for features, more switches, controls, etc. means more insertions into the signal path and hence degradation of the signal. 1 reason why the 18 and 19 were such killers with their minimalist designs rather than trying to make them look like a cockpit of an airliner.
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