On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:01:14 GMT, "Asimov"
wrote:


Transistor amplifiers in the mid 70's were pieces of crap. They had no
idea what they were doing with respect to TIM and other time domain
anomalies. Often transistor amplifiers of that vintage would oscillate
ultrasonically and infrasonically when overloaded and it caused really
odd sonic artifacts that nobody realized or understood back then.



I was working as a repair tech in a stereo store back then and one day
someone brought in one of those Marantz $1000 receivers with the
little Oscope in the corner for the FM tuner. We plugged it in and
all the techs working there stopped and commented that it was a damn
good sounding receiver.

Funny thing is, you really can hear a difference sometimes.

You'll know it when you hear it.