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SoCal Sam

SoCal Sam

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Presenting the Marantz TA-170AV.:banana: Bought it for a measly 12 cents a watt. Don't know why the Marantz name is printed twice, this is a all-in-one box. OK, you can laugh.:yippy:

Seriously, this receiver sounds as good as any Marantz receiver you care to name and I've heard nearly all of them. It packs 165 wpc, which makes it the fourth most powerful Marantz receiver behind only the 2385, 2500, and 2600.

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How much does it weigh? Do you have access to test equipment to verify it's claimed output? Can we get some nudie pics?
 
Nice Sam, but now you'll have to double your investment to buy the remote. BTW I had seen the pair that Vintage Stereo had posted info on awhile back over at the HiFi Museum.

Vintage Stereo's - Marantz TA-170AV Receiver

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Regards,
TB
 
DAMN...now we're talking HEAT SINKS,man!
Phewww...165w/ch?
What do you know about that power supply?
Pssst...can i tell you something? she ain't no beauty queen alright (guess the design guy was out of town that day)but wait till she sings!
165wx.12=19.80...is that the year it was made?
 
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I've got something similar to that of around the same age as well. It's a PM-140 amp with a tuner and tape deck that plug into it to get power. It isn't the best sounding thing i've ever heard but it is very loud. Didn't pay anything for it
 
Jailtime said:
How much does it weigh? Do you have access to test equipment to verify it's claimed output? Can we get some nudie pics?
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It weighs around 25 pounds. Not exactly a heavyweight because of the plastic face and flimsy chassis. The heatsink is solid and would not shame a high end amp.

The outputs are Toshiba 2SA1301 and 2SC3280 which according to my tech were used in some decent amps. Originals are NLA. Most "new" ones are counterfeits so real ones can be harvested from a TA170AV.

The other enthusiast mentioned by TB took a TA170AV in for a power test and it was within a few percent of making spec. The preamp didn't do so well in the square wave test which is why I am bypassing and running CD Direct.
 
Had one in here once, I think the idea of the double name was to make it look like seperates. It actually did not sound too bad.
 
Personally I love gear like that. There is some Technics gear I assume from the same era that sounds really good. Stuff goes a ton cheaper because it looks so dated. Cheap but good performance is cool.
 
Tower Boss said:
Nice Sam, but now you'll have to double your investment to buy the remote. BTW I had seen the pair that Vintage Stereo had posted info on awhile back over at the HiFi Museum.

Vintage Stereo's - Marantz TA-170AV Receiver

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Regards,
TB
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My good buddy noticed my TA170AV. He totally regretted giving away his two examples so I gifted mine to him. We decided to do the 2500 vs. TA170AV comparo. These two models were made by Standard Radio at the same factory so they represent the best and the worst receivers they made. Using an A/B switch and two pairs of the same speaker, we compared the sound and they were so close as to be almost indistinguishable! This result could either drive up TA170AV values (not likely) or drive down 2500 values (equally unlikely). Interesting stuff!
 
merrylander said:
Had one in here once, I think the idea of the double name was to make it look like seperates. It actually did not sound too bad.
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A lot of all in ones have horizontal indentations to make them look like separate pieces. The name appearing on each "separate piece" just strengthens the illusion.

I passed on an ugly Marantz all in one a neighbor offered a few months ago. I hope it wasn't this model!
 
stereofanboy said:
A lot of all in ones have horizontal indentations to make them look like separate pieces. The name appearing on each "separate piece" just strengthens the illusion.
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I think the bigger question is WHY manufacturers decided to do this?

A buyer would find out soon enough that they were NOT separates. Then live with the "illusion" of separates? I don't get it.
 
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