Very nice! Next time I come across a pair of these at a garage sale or thrift store I will definitely pick them up! ...................Just kidding these are as extremely rare and almost never for sale and if they are the price is astronomical. Marantz was way ahead of their time with how well these are built and how good they sound. Hard to beat well designed tube mono blocks! Thanks for the video.

Have too say dam those things look cool!!!

beautiful blocks!

Amplificador valvulado tem o melhor som! Abraço. Rio de Janeiro Brasil

The BEST!

I have Marantz 8b. many audiophiles will say the Marantz 8b sounds better than the 9's. Also i heard from a guy and he liked his Marantz 8b over his Marantz model 2's due to the better high frequency extension.Guy's its the iron in the 8b. hard too beat. They all sound glorious. Most guys would give their left nut to own any of them.Cheers!!!

@crooner2007

9 жыл бұрын

I used to feel the same way, having owned Marantz 8B's for many years. I recently purchased a pair of 1962 vintage Model 9's and there is no comparison. They possess a musicality and timbre that is even better than the 8B's. This is specially true in triode mode. Most people who claim an 8B sounds better probably cannot afford to purchase a pair of 9's.

@teleking36

8 жыл бұрын

+cary marlowe i actually ended up selling these sometime in 2013. i now have an 8B that i thoroughly enjoy, and no longer sweat owning a $15k pair of amps.

A pair of 15,000 Dollar amps running on a 100 Dollar pair of speakers! Nice...

@teleking36

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom A just using what I had!

@MrSeattleScott Just got myself a pair of Focal Chorus 806Vs for my smaller apartment setup and they're sounding great. Unloaded the Advents rather quickly on CL. I'll step up to a larger pair of speakers when I move into a bigger place that can accommodate them.

will definitely look into those! the focals are nice but i miss a little low end. will they help restore that? not looking for a ton of it though.

@deucejam oh, the irony! yes, an ipod. I don't have much of a system besides these amps and the preamp. working on getting either a Rega P1 or a vintage Marantz 6300 so I can start playing vinyl. I also bought a Maverick D1 DAC for all my digital stuff so things are starting to sound better. Although you'd be surprised how good even an ipod sounds through these amps.

beautiful i have a marantz 4400 a 6300 and a 5220 with cd4 demodulator running a set of bose 301 series II cerwin vega d9's and jbl L166's

@cirrus1964

6 жыл бұрын

distortion coming from all 4 corners? hahahaha

Cambridge Audio iD100 ipod dock has digital outs so you can connect it to an external dac :)

@MrSeattleScott I looked into the Wadia. Currently the only transport out there for ipods right now that will bypass the DAC in the ipod. Wish it wasn't so expensive! I import most of my music at 320kbps AAC. Lossless is saved for those really well produced or well mixed albums that I know I'll appreciate more in that format. Speakers need to stay small for the place I'm living in. If you have recommendations for small bookshelf speakers, I'm all ears!

Nice. You ran the 9s through a solid state amp, not the 7C? Any particular reason.

Are those original 9's or repros?

LARGE ADVENTS!!

drooools...... :)

Originals! From 1966

EL34'S? Do they break up like a 100 watt Marshall when turned up? That would be awesome and a waste of money.

You know many Hi-Fi Audio maker. Don't even really know how to make Silver 60-70micron coated PCB just like linuxgeek81 do. eg..Marantz, Pioneer, Sony, Tech,...etc..They don't know how to built Silver PCB. :D Only AudioNote can. See KZread Video; Audio Note Factory Tour Begins.mp4 See video how people can make it. Type this on KZread;Silver coating a PCB, part 2 of 2 Don't even have a single piece Silver PCB Audio equipment on Sales outside market yet.

Kind of stuff ilky playing stereo with mismatched amps.

Coloca uma musica boa ai.