[Clyde Slick]

On 6 Iun, 17:56, "BretLudwig" wrote:
"BZZZZZZT.

I'd guess Eico, HH Scott and a bunch of other outsold the MC275.

Apples-to-apples with the MC275 *might* be something like the Marantz
8b or 5, Leak, Quad, or Harman-Kardon although the 8b and Citation II
were less than half of the MC275s list price back then.

An ST-70 factory-wired was $129 versus the $444 cost of the MC275 in
the 1962 Allied catalog."

*We'd just both be guessing since accurate data are not available.
McIntosh knows, approximately to the unit (if you've worked in production
you know there are always hiccups and odd cases, not to mention the
occasional "cleans" made for employees and prototype pulls) how many 275s
they made but will not say. In the US Marantz era, they kept mediocre
records and were always clannish with data and probably no one knows. Dyna
had no idea on purpose. The IRS can't bust you for records that simply
can't be proven to need to exist!

*The MC275 was not a terribly expensive unit to make. It used all common
consumer parts and a chassis bent up out of prechromed sheet steel. The
transformers were wound inhouse on homemade wind machines.

*It still wouldn't be terribly expensive to reproduce _correctly_ although
no one has. They'd rather make piece of **** Dynacos.



Mc was making the reissue MC275 a few years ago
and selling them for $3995