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Marantz 2220b

Reply #25 –
Mine is almost identical in appearance, but is not a Marantz 2220b, it's a Marantz 2225, and it still rocks. We are happy with it.

I saw in the list provided by Pearson:

http://www.retroaudio.ru/marantz/index.shtml

...i saw the 2225L is there, but not my 2225.  I don't see differences, thought.

Marantz 2220b

Reply #27 –
fetchw, that could be. I know that Rega turntable is second-hand, and I believe Arny Krueger is not a great vinyl expert. Also, it seems that in a few ocassions there have been some errors in his measurements. It would be a good thing to ask him to read this reply at rec.audio.tech or rec.audio.high.end, although he's very combative.

However, I still believe that frequency response of a good vinyl setup can very hardly approximate to the one of a medium quality cd player, for the reasons I gave.

Marantz 2220b

Reply #28 –
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fetchw, that could be. I know that Rega turntable is second-hand, and I believe Arny Krueger is not a great vinyl expert. Also, it seems that in a few ocassions there have been some errors in his measurements. It would be a good thing to ask him to read this reply at rec.audio.tech or rec.audio.high.end, although he's very combative.

However, I still believe that frequency response of a good vinyl setup can very hardly approximate to the one of a medium quality cd player, for the reasons I gave.

If he's combative, I don't want to confront him with it (I'm not combative, although I used to be -- life is just too short).  It's too short to argue "vinyl vs. CD" too... all I ask anyone to acknowledge is there's a huge back-catalog of music that was never released on CD and existing only on vinyl.  For some of us, this is a critical factor (aside from the SQ issues).

I also have that HFN test record, and I can verify that it was used totally incorrectly in the PCAVTech test.  Especially the THD figures -- the tracks used for that are recorded at +15dB, +18DB and etc (heavily overmodulated on the record). in order to set antiskating for minimum distortion:

http://www.tnt-audio.com/accessories/hfnrrdisc_e.html

I'd like to politely request that you don't advertise or post that PCAVTech link anymore as an example, until a proper test is performed and more details are revealed (and can be verified by outside parties).

Thanks,

fewtch