The Stereo 70 Was A ****box

[BretLudwig]

Oh yeah, it sure was.

But what were the good vintage amps? In the early days, they were mostly
homebrews, but they were the popular ones. People bought the top quality
UTC Linear Standard or Acro or Peerless transformers and built theirs
usually from proven designs. Then McIntosh, Marantz, Fairchild, and others
built them for little more than you could buy the top quality traansformers
for and people to a fair extent quit building amps, just as hams quit
building receivers when you could buy a Hallicrafters for the price of the
parts to build a good double conversion superhet.

Probably the best _built_ factory amps were the Fairchilds, with the
Marantzes close behind. McIntosh's were the prettiest, after the early
grey two chassis models were superceded by the MC-30. The best sounding
was perhaps the early Brook, with its 2A3 triodes choke-coupled to octal
drivers and a feedback tertiary. Paul W. Klipsch thought so.

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On Jun 16, 3:10 pm, "BretLudwig" > wrote:
> Oh yeah, it sure was.
>
> But what were the good vintage amps? In the early days, they were mostly
> homebrews, but they were the popular ones. People bought the top quality
> UTC Linear Standard or Acro or Peerless transformers and built theirs
> usually from proven designs. Then McIntosh, Marantz, Fairchild, and others
> built them for little more than you could buy the top quality traansformers
> for and people to a fair extent quit building amps, just as hams quit
> building receivers when you could buy a Hallicrafters for the price of the
> parts to build a good double conversion superhet.
>
> Probably the best _built_ factory amps were the Fairchilds, with the
> Marantzes close behind. McIntosh's were the prettiest, after the early
> grey two chassis models were superceded by the MC-30. The best sounding
> was perhaps the early Brook, with its 2A3 triodes choke-coupled to octal
> drivers and a feedback tertiary. Paul W. Klipsch thought so.

I knew Fairchild built amps but I've never seen one.

You're leaving out some plums. Altec built a lot of tube amps and
while some were fit only for PA service, some were superb hi-fi amps.
The Harmon Kardon Citations were also a very fine amp too.

[BretLudwig]

There were a lot of good ones. The point is that the Dyna, was not one.

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