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- From: drkhoe@nmt.edu (ONID)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: technics vs denon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.044055.22177@nmt.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 04:40:55 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.104835.11018@bristol.ac.uk> <Bz1u1H.KH9@ssesco.com> <1992Dec14.100406.23956@bristol.ac.uk>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
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- In article <1992Dec14.100406.23956@bristol.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
- >In article <Bz1u1H.KH9@ssesco.com> nau@ssesco.com (William Nau) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec10.104835.11018@bristol.ac.uk>, smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
- >>|> Is this maybe a cultural difference? I never thought I'd see the words
- >>|> 'Marantz' and 'high-end' used in the same sentence.
- >>
- >>Marantz has a wide variety of equipment. THey make shit for Sears, but
- >>also make some stuff that will clearly give Denon/Yamaha a run for their
- >>money.
- >
- >Did occur to me that it might be that Marantz market different parts of
- >their range on different sides of the pond. (And, I should probably
- >admit that I own a Marantz EQ551 -- gathering dust in the attic -- and
- >an SP50 -- in active use.)
- >
- >There are certainly cultural differences as well. For another example,
- >Technics is much more highly regarded in the UK than it seems to be in
- >the US. Not that I'd tack the label high-end onto Technics either, but...
- >
-
- Marantz makes some very outstanding equipment... They have two CD players
- which are reference standard and their AX-1000 DSP is the only kind in the
- world... They also make amplifiers which are of better than mid-range
- quality...
-
- >--
- >Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
- > P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!uknet!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132
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