The most vivacious amp I have ever owned. Trully a stepup from my Vintage Rotel I bought a couple of months ago. Spent 5 hours cleaning it up properly including a trip for some new fuses.
Music is beatifully smooth and detailed. I found the Rotel RA-311 to produce a bit more sibilance than I wanted and detail wasnt the best. My new amp has a better grip on the sound.
Looks good, rare as! And sounds gorgeous. Was £240 in 1974, so working that out in todays money (£1800?). Ive trully found a bargain!
Odd scarch and dent on controls but hardly noticeable the sound is something magical.
Ok, I'll tell you, its a Marantz 1060. I bought this with aim to purchase a dual mono power amp using this as a pre-amp but I think I've changed my mind. It smashes the Rotel-Ra311 to bits.
I'm not big on the vintage stuff myself, but that is one nice looking amp! I can totally see how rewarding it would be to snag something like that, clean it up and maybe repair it, and have it sound great. Good to hear it matches so well with your KEF speakers, J.
That is a pretty good amp JJ. Now...cut the wires going to the switched and unswitched plugs on the rear panel, and insulate the leads. These make a ton of noise in the power input. Just a tip.
Definately Dan, its a nice match indeed. Nuck I would take the tip only I dont want to mess it up especially with everything working. Besides what exactly are the switched and unswitched plugs actual purpose. 'ac outlets, same as line voltage'?
Nice amp JJ. I replaced the jumpers on my McIntosh integrated. I haven't really noticed a difference, but surprisingly, the stock jumpers on the Mac were rather cheap.
