I happen to know someone who has a Kenwood KT-7500 for sale and it's cherry.
Thanks for the information, I am now able to rank my humble Kenwood kr 4600 Reciever.
I happen to know someone who has a Kenwood KT-7500 for sale and it's cherry.
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Wow where did you get the old advertising adds. These adds bring back memories of when I was in high school . I use to drool over the monster vintage receivers back then . There was no way a teenager making pretty close to the minimum wage was going to have the scratch to buy one of those behemoths. Boy those were the good old days .
The only thing to be careful in regards to upgrades is that you don't put more into a unit than you can reasonably get at resale.
We as audiophiles are always looking to the next purchase and usually will want to get our money back out of currently owned units.
I have spend about 3 times the price of my Sansui for different caps and other parts just to try it out. The biggest problem is that most fancy caps like Rusian olis or silver micas have to purchased in 2 or 3 diferrent stores around the world. Plus u need to try many different ones to get the best. Over the years I also found out that lower amp models are better as not over designed. I remember my recaped Proton competing with Cyrus amp costing 5-10 time more
Some people also think that modifying vintage amp is a crime and should be penalised. Why I see no reason not to change RCA sockets, wires and speakers binding posts. And most of them sound "tuby" warm because of 30year old caps and carbon resitors everywhere. The most important part to change is bias pot, after the years they do not hold current properly, and this can damage transistors very quickly. None of the ones I had was able to hold current steady. The noise is usually caused by the transistors, sometimes they can be replaced but most of the time they are out of the production for years. Same as pots, without rewiring its not possible to change them.
Yes we all want to sell out stuff at some stage, while some of the amps will stay with us for years, as my Grundig I have maybe 10 years or more now, and not willing to let it go for another 10.
What a great find! Maybe hold out for a Marrantz 10b/20b, or double down on Mac and get a MR78. I've got the MR-78 with a few tweaks (via modafferi) and it is one of the few perfect items I have. No complaints.
One of our local vintage shops (Echo Audio) here in Portland, OR has a MR-78 for sale..................$725.
MR78 is one of the best tuners - modded by Modafferi, it becomes perhaps THE best out there.
You will have to decide how far you wish to go with this. Buying merely vintage MR78 "as is" will NOT yield the maximum out of this design. Just a quick search brought this : http://www.ebay.com/itm/380958839163?rmvSB=true
http://www.audioclassics.com/mods
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/mcintosh-mr78-what-should-i-know-before-i-shop-for-one.166668/
BEFORE you even think to consider a tuner in this class, make 100 +% sure you have a decent antenna on an antenna rotator. Remember, a stock NAD 4020A with an antenna on a rotator will drive MR 78 with a dipole into the ground on all but most local/powerful/multipath free stations.
So, it is the donor unit, restoration/modification and antenna on a rotator - and if the FM stations in your vicinity are worth their salt, it will quickly spark an interest in a decent recorder.
Taken together, >>>> $ than a "receiver" - even if TOTL Pioneer.