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In Reply to: You can nominate low-priced gear for coverage in my column in Stereophile! posted by John Marks on June 21, 2003 at 08:54:34:
You wrote:
"Marantz receiver gives more performance for less value"
Then try Harman Kardon HK3370 $299 at Crutchfield. The new H-K has more power costs a bit more. I got the HK3470 used at Harman Audio.com for $160 or so. Putting on Stereophile test CD 3 track 13 Robert Silverman piano, I can say the Marantz 4120 receiver was noticeably grainy, the HK was fine."Again, I am not trying to be nyaa-nyaa about this, and I hope that I do discover a speaker with natural tonal balance and some dynamics and bass extension for $500, and a great integrated amp for $300, etc. but it isn't that easy."
Try Ascend Acoustics CBM-170 for $328.
Epos has just come out with a vinyl clad speaker for under $400 as well. I doubt it's as dynamic as the CBM-170 though.
Well the Marantz PM-7200 is ~$700, not $300, but it got a rave in What Hi-Fi? The older PM-700 was $549.99.For source. plenty of good Panasonic, Toshiba DVD players for under $100.
LATinternational sells a CD treatment for $16.00/bottle. Clears up HF distortion. Specs give internal CD player jitter measurements but what about error from laser reading the disc? THAT's a more complete measurement. CD treatments reduce reading errors which potentially could be way more than what the CDP circuitry does in of itself.
For tuner try Marantz ST6000 for $300. Same internals as the $700 PM-17 from what I understand. Has dual antennae input and all the bells and whistles.
Put the HK up against Rotel or NAD, it's that good IMHO.
Also if you could not be as "diplomatic" as Art Dudley in his recent Rotel RA-01 / NAD review that would be good. I, for one, could not really get much of an idea how good the pieces were or how they compared to more expensive stuff. Bash away, I always say :-).
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