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RE: Marantz 8B with Bob Hovland Mods?

What speaks are you trying the amps with?

Here is some 8B trivia, hopefully correct, that has helped to make the 8B collectible. Sid Smith wound the prototype transformers. Marantz liked them, sent the drawings out (to I think Peerless). The transformers they wound did not sound as good. So Marantz ended up winding all 8B transformers in-house, under Sid's supervision.

Saul Marantz did an interview close to the end of his life, was asked what amp he had at home. He answered the 8B.

The 8B has a separate feedback winding. Some of the McIntosh amps do also, but there are a lot of amplifiers that don't. In the case of the 8B I'm guessing it helps it do well with the Electrostatics I'm using.



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