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    Well ive been looking for a minto Akai 'AA8500' Seever for quite some toime loike!

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    Err. . . Should I ask why André? I can sort-of justify to myself buying tat, but try to curb the impulse. For anything other than tat, cost and logic usually prevail. If I did have real dosh to spare, God knows what I'd be buying.

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    Because they sound good.Other peoples idea of good Hi-Fi aint mine loike. However i Keep telling you lot i aint intrested in specialist Hi-Fi anymore.

    I already have an 'AA5000' amp magic it is.

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    I wonder how the Acoustic Research amp from the early 70's would sound today? Transformer coupled too and the matching tuner was also a wonderful thing I feel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DSJR View Post
    I wonder how the Acoustic Research amp from the early 70's would sound today? Transformer coupled too and the matching tuner was also a wonderful thing I feel.
    I had the whole set up until a couple of years ago... They are poor by modern standards being overly smooth & a bit wooly but they just make sweet music.

    I suspect any out there will need a full service as the preamp is always powered bit like a Cyrus phono stage...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSJR View Post
    I wonder how the Acoustic Research amp from the early 70's would sound today? Transformer coupled too and the matching tuner was also a wonderful thing I feel.
    I can tell you exactly how they sound, very good when recapped..

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    Quote Originally Posted by istari_knight View Post
    I had the whole set up until a couple of years ago... They are poor by modern standards being overly smooth & a bit wooly but they just make sweet music.
    Why do people keep saying this for crying out loud I get sick to the back teeth people comparing vintage to modern equipment, vintage sound to modern sound.

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    Hmm... Vintage products should sound like modern ones if both types are good at their job. The main limiting factor today is old-age in the vintage stuff. However, many older amps from the early 70's measured very badly even then, with copious amounts of crossover distortion to contend with, let alone other bad things going on such as poor vinyl input overload margins (Leak Stereo 30 and 70) and very odd artifacts (Armstrong 600 series and original Quad 405) and severe OTT band-limiting as found on a stock Quad 33 preamp.

    Many Japanese amps from this period were also hobbled with, I understand, too much global feedback applied, all to give good harmonic distortion figures. The music suffered so badly as a result. Poor current delivery was yet another issue for many Jap amps and some advised against 4 ohm loads, despite having facitilies for two sets of speakers in parallel!

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    As 5p (shilling in old money) Dave mentions Japanese amps did employ high levels of overall feedback to get a good figure for distortion, at least that was what was used to be levelled at them. Whatever happened to nested differential feedback loops? Does anyone use them?

    Anyway, I want one of these:
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    I use my ears instead of heading straight for the spec sheet

    I mean who the hell cares if the spec aint upto modern scratch??

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