The 7 Greatest Hi-Fi Amplifiers Ever Built (And Why You've Never Heard of Half of Them

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• DA

  @DaveGava · 2 months ago

  I owned that Krell I ran it on a pair of Apogee Duettas. An experience one has to be present for to appreciate. Magic!

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• JO

  @John-l5z4r · 1 month ago

  Been a audiophile, serious music listener, player guitar, drums, bass for over 40 years. I have researched all this audio history and then some. Glad to see people picking up the torch, and finding out what real gear sounds like.

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• ST

  @steelers6titles · 2 months ago

  Warner Brothers pioneered "the talkies".  Don Juan (1926) pioneered the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, although spoken dialogue was still in the future.

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• JE

  @JeffMiottel · 2 months ago (edited)

  I started rebuilding old  electrostats from boxes of old parts that for some reason found me ( mostly for something to do during lockdown) and pairing them with old Dalesford woofers in mahogany enclosures and the HK Citation II drives them effortlessly!

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• AR

  @ArthurEOGUS · 1 month ago

  I actually have a Futterman OTL3, driving my Stax F83 speakers.  I had tried many other amplifiers first, none sounded at all acceptable.  The Futterman's are, just as you say, an utter revelation.

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• GE

  @Geopholus · 2 months ago

  A Man who lived in New Canaan CT invented the 1st direct coupled vacuum tube amp , I think his name was Panyeko it used 121 tubes running in parallel, (11 X 11) off rectified AC line voltage, without a power transformer.  They actually sounded amazing..  This was also in the early 1950's.

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• HA

  @haroldcohen5044 · 1 month ago

  The MC3500 was the amp that over 400,000 people heard their favorite bands perform during the famous Woodstock Music and Arts Fair.

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  @TommyTerblanche-to1pk · 2 months ago

  Wishing to hear the sound from this equipment. I never knew superior amps existed...

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• MI

  @mikemmikem2758 · 2 months ago

  As a recovering audiophile this is a great video.  As I write this I'm looking at my Marantz NR1200 and Marantz CD6007 for my stereo music system.  Thanks again for the great video.

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• ML

  @mlebron20 · 3 weeks ago

  I have been relying on the NYAL Futterman OTL3 monoblocs for 41 years. About two years ago, Jon Spector, who worked with George Kaye of Moscode and formerly of NYAL, and blues hall of fame member, took them and completely refurbished them, converted them to triode, put in new Jensen foil oil caps, replaced the photo flood caps with three new nichicon power supply caps, re-etched circuit board where needed. <br><br>For about 15 of those years, they were unstable, but Jon resolved that problem around the year 2000. <br><br>I drive a pair of Altec Lansing 604D coaxials that I converted to acoustic suspension. In his book, Harvey Gizmo Rosenberg says that pairing the OTL3s with the 604s is the ultimate pairing, especially for rock and jazz music.<br><br>I listen in a dedicated room that is semi-anechoic. <br><br>The sense of lifelike immediacy and speed is truly not to be believed. Vocals especially just hang in a fully 360 degree holographically dimensional surround space, the speakers completely disappear.

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  @runboyrunboy · 2 months ago

  I had the original MC275, MC240 and MC225 and Marantz 8 all at the same time...driving various speakers...however favorite is actually the MC225 for the sound

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• SC

  @screengrid6753 · 2 months ago

  You need to add the first transistor differential amps produced by Southwest Technical Products. They were wide band DC amps that had straight wire sound and tons of power. They had a 250 watt mono model. The only problem was that they were kits and you had to make them. Oh another small problem: since they were so wide band, they could go into oscillation at very high frequencies and literally burn up. Most of them burned up. That&apos;s why you don&apos;t see them anywhere.

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