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Late '60's early '70's "High End"
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James Bongiorno
Dear Paul,
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Substitute Marantz (tubes) for Mackintosh. James Paul Anthony Bigelow wrote: Hello, |
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Paul- Late 60's was pretty much McIntosh, Marantz, Crown, perhaps Fisher to
a point - by 72-73 SAE, Phase Linear and Audio Research were there- - but the Japanese were opening up the consumer market and creating a $ gap that forced the older American companies either out or to the orient- that started a new low volume American response with companies like Threshold and Gas to get into the market by mid 70's. Sony was the only true Japanese company making "high end" separates at the time and Marantz was owned by Superscope- the Sony tape distributer in the US at that time- They had moved all their production to the orient by then. I owned high end shop during that period and to my best memory that is a simplified answer. Am sure I missed someone and didn't include numerous "esoteric" small companies that proiduced some interesting equipment but never really got into the market Andy On Tue, 02 May 2000 20:53:16 -0000, SAE_Talk@... wrote: Hello, _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit |
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Some of the HK Citation product line was pretty decent as well. I don't
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really think Threshold has been around since late days of tube era. Armin Paya Paul Anthony Bigelow wrote:
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Paul Anthony Bigelow
Hello James and Armin,
To me, anyway, there seemed to be a point in the very early 70's where Marantz sort of stopped being "high end" and more "consumer grade". It also seemed to me at about this time the "high end" as we know it started to be born. At this point, I think Marantz had stopped using tubes and McIntosh was just about to stop. At this crossover SAE and Audio Research started up soon to be joined by GAS. It is this period I am referring to and the other companies that may have been started. The early days of tube are quite heavily documented. Early solid state, in my opinion, is sparsely documented. Best regards, Paul Bigelow --- In SAE_Talk@..., Armin Paya <apaya@s...> wrote: Some of the HK Citation product line was pretty decent as well. Idon't really think Threshold has been around since late days of tube era.--------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------Earn free CDs from Amazon & CDNow? True! New site needs ---
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James Bongiorno
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Actually, you are right about Marantz. They did stop designing tube stuff in 1965. However, that's when Sidney was developing the very nice Marantz model 15 power amp (1966) of which I was the cleanup engineer on. Even by today's standards, this amp would hold its own although it's only 70 watts/channel. If I do my upgrade on one, it becomes quite formidable. James Paul Anthony Bigelow wrote: Hello James and Armin, |
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James Bongiorno
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Forget about HK. I wouldn't hit a dog in the #$% with the stuff that they made. Their emphasis has always been Japanese through and through. The only thing that they ever did in the last 25 years that held any prospect of performance was the Citation 23 tuner but not in its delivered form. They are a CHEAP organization and although they paid be big bucks to completely redesign the unit, which I did, and the results were quite spectacular, they opted not to make it because it cost too much and had too many "adjustments". When are people going to learn that you can NOT make a great tuner without adjustments. Its not ever going to happen. James Armin Paya wrote: Some of the HK Citation product line was pretty decent as well. I don't |
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