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Trevor Wilson

On 19/05/2017 10:32 PM, wrote:
"**I could be wrong, but I doubt it. Luxman, absolutely. Quite a
few of
theirs employed such a system. If you figure out which Marantz, let
me know. I have pretty much every service manual for every model."

I took a quick look around and the answers were not forthcoming. I
did not imagine this, I remember it because it was unusual, for them
at least.

Luxman I don't really know about, but I have seen them with pre
out/main in jacks, I would assume then that though the volume worked
for the pre out, the tone controls did not ?

**I did not say that ALL Luxman integrated amps used such a system. Just
their low end ones. I know of no amplifier that employs pre/main
connectors that does not disable the the tone controls when it is used
as a power amp only.

Not unfathomable.

My buddy in Florida had a decent system, Luxman receiver with a pair
of ADS with blown tweeters, slaved to it was another amp running a
Bose Acoustimass system with the sub way back in the corner and the
satellites on top of the ADSes. Damn did that sound good. And you
couldn't get it to distort, even at cop calling levels.

**If you think an Acoustimess„¢ system can EVER sound good, then you need
to get out a lot more. Bose Acoustimess„¢ are absolute crap. There is a
huge, deep and wide hole in the frequency response of the system,
centred around 200Hz, the woofer module (it cannot, EVER, be called a
subwoofer) doesn't deliver anything of consequence below 40Hz (I have a
pair of NEAR 10M-II bookshelf speakers that can go lower and louder than
the Bose woofer). Distortion is horrible and the ability of the system
to deliver a credible image is non-existent.

But women love them. They are small and cute. They just sound like ****.

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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au