YES, it is a gorgeous tuner with very high production and build values. calls the 150 dB spec "horse manure").įormer Stereophile reviewer Don Scott said, "Try a 10B on a station that has three subcarriers and join the Audobon Society," meaning its poor SCA rejection makes it prone to "birdies" (whistles or heterodynes), and as part of a 1987 review for Stereophile Don estimated one particular 10B's selectivity at a very pedestrian 70 dB alternate, 10 dB adjacent.
However, if you're looking for a top tuner and not just a collector's item, don't buy a 10B without reading the discussion in our FMtuners group beginning here, and here (where our knowledgable contributor Brian L. I tried different tubes and cleaning it." The 10B's claimed selectivity specs (150 dB for alternate channel and 42 dB for adjacent channel, which would be on a par with the MR 78 or T-9090II if only they were true), are awesome. I listened and tinkered with that one for a month but didn't know what was wrong and couldn't help the guy. Two I've seen in Dallas were kept in a garage because they 'aren't working right.' One other was in an apartment closet because it only played in mono. Jim added, "I have heard many accounts of 10B's laid to the side, sold as problematic or even enshrined as objects of audio art (in Japan). Our panelist Jim said, "I've borrowed two different Marantz 10Bs and both only played in mono because the opto couplers went bad" ( sells new replacement opto couplers, but we don't know him personally). Marantz 10B (1964, $650, photo, schematic1, schematic2, brochure1, brochure2, brochure3, brochure4, brochureA, brochureB)īy most accounts, the FM-only Marantz 10B has great sound on strong signals and a tendency to require repair rather frequently in order to continue to perform at its peak.
Further information on Marantz tuners is available at Ben Blish's. We recognize that we lack detailed writeups for many early-'70s Marantz tuners it just happens that our panelists haven't had the chance to play with as many Marantzes as some other names. In parentheses after the model number are the year of introduction and most recent list price, and/or the original list price if indicated by "orig" (special thanks to David Rich of The Audio Critic for copies of historical material from his reference library).
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