Most beautiful piece of Hi-Fi kit ever?

[Rave]

Ohhhhh, this tuner is gorgeous:



I've been scouring boot fairs and secondhand shops for years looking for Marantz oscilloscope tuners, no luck yet though.

Rich :¬)

[Moby-Dick]

but where is the RDS or DAB ?

only kidding - its a beautifull bit of kit. I used to have a couple of marantz amps & tape units , though they didn't last log, they wer of a similar vintage to that.

[Rave]

Hehe. I'm not a big fan of 70s silver gear in general, but the blue light and scope make all the difference.

Marantz should make a DAB tuner that looks like that (and preferably sounds as good, if that's possible).

Rich :¬)

[Bindibadgi]

That looks great. Shame its all plastic rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishe nowerdays. I miss the good-old "clicky" buttons you knew you'd pressed

[Zak33]

how old IS that Rave mate?

[winkiwin]

would look good anywhere

[Butuz]

Erk! - from the era where silver facias and hundreds of knobs buttons and LED's were deemed more important than sound quality

Rave If your into 70's solid state - these are good friendly forums.

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/for...php?forumid=13

Butuz

[Butuz]

Here is proper beautiful by the way.



Thats a preamp, phono stage, and 2 mono block power amps.

Yum. Keep your Marantz

Butuz

[kushtibari]

Here is proper beautiful by the way.

Thats a preamp, phono stage, and 2 mono block power amps.

Yum. Keep your Marantz

Butuz

Got to agree - thats superb. Atmosphere, style, the works.

[Rave]

Here is proper beautiful by the way.
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Yum. Keep your Marantz

Yuck, looks like a right lash up. I will keep the Marantz, cheers.

Cheers for the linky though, interesting! I might have to break out the old electronics textbooks again, I fancy getting into some amplifier fiddling, and I want to make myself a Chu Moy headphone amp, too.

Zak, it's from 1978, although they made similarly styled ones through the 70s, and oscilloscope tuners from the 60s.

I cribbed the picture from this site:

http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/reviewsA-N.html

Rich :¬)

[Dfhaii]

Gotta agree with Butuz on that valve setup. Got some valves here to build a headphone amp with at the moment but no time

Col

[Butuz]

Hehe Rich i am gonna buy you a £100 vision express optocal labs voucher for you to spend on an eye test and glasses - i recon you need em!

@ Dfhaii i am in the middle of building a valve stereo power amp now to compliment my passive preamp - photos will be incoming soon

Butuz

[Rave]

Hehe Rich i am gonna buy you a £100 vision express optocal labs voucher for you to spend on an eye test and glasses - i recon you need em!

Nah mate, 20/20 vision here (at least until I get longsightedness from spending hours a day on the computer ). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.

Rich :¬)

[Dfhaii]

@ Dfhaii i am in the middle of building a valve stereo power amp.

What valves have you got for that, for me headphone amp i have a mullard ecc88 and a 6as7g for the output. Do you know of a good place for transformers i found www.sowter.co.uk who are supposed to be v good but they are quite pricy.

Col

[Dfhaii]

And as a reply to the question in the first post, I wouldnt say no to this


Col