Monoblocks, anyone?

[tugrik]

This is a rare 'for sale' posting here in my LJ. As I move more and more into fabrication and prototyping gear I keep getting rid of my prior gadget-love: high end audio stuff. This next piece to go is a nifty rarity. I thought I'd put it up here in the LJ in case any of my friends were audio nuts and wanted a first crack at it.

For Sale: A pair of Marantz MA-24 monoblock amplifiers.



(image blatantly ganked from google-images since I haven't taken a good picture of mine yet)

These are a pair of 30W, Class-A, single-channel (monoblock) amplifiers. They are designed for smaller, extremely accurate sound systems. They are circa 1992 or so, and were European release only. They're considered a 'very rare' amp these days. I got these in exchange for other equipment about 8 years ago, and to be honest, I didn't know what I had. I knew they sounded amazing, but I had no idea they were considered rare.

My prior roomie chipotle used them for a number of months and can attest that they're still in great condition.

Rated Power: 30W Class-A
Distortion: 0.03% THD
Input Sensitivity: 1V
Signal/Noise: > 100 dB
Dimentions: 8.2 - 6.4 - 14.1 in
Weight: 24.2 lb

The only brochure/spec-sheet I could find still on the 'net was one on their .NL site, so it's not in English, sorry: Marantz.NL spec sheet MA24

There's a pair of them currently selling on eBay for $1999. I've seen them on Craigslist before for around $2200.

I'd sell them for half that much to a friend, if one was interested. Make me an offer. If nobody here is interested I'll push 'em at Craigslist instead, no worries. :)

Comments

[wickednavi.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I mention this to my dad? I'm going to to feel like an ass if it is something his buddies worked on, I've done that a few times. We have all sorts of rare things piled in this house, my room is like a storeroom for equipment. -_-

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Please do mention them! I want to get them sold. :)

[alohawolf.livejournal.com]

The specs are impressive, they blow the specs on the Dynaco gear I have out of the water.

[thakur.livejournal.com]

Marantz is the hifi Arm of Phillips ..and thats why I like European Electronics. you do need efficient speakers like Klipsh or Lowthers though as 30 W isn't a lot of power.

On a side note. you can now get Amps with those distortion specs as kits these days from people here like Jaycar or Altronics.

Here is one from Altronics
20 W/ch classA stereo amp 0.00006% distortion price $600
http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=K5125.

Even the 175W/ch amp I built from a kit had 0.001% see my earlier LJ entry with pics

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

Holy motherfuck. I wish I could afford those. But that's so far out of my audio price range for the remainder of this lifetime it's not even funny (your very reasonable asking price for friends is my entire income for two months, and of course what I do get is not nearly enough to pay the bills as it is).

Wowzers, though. I am familiar with those amps, as I trained some time ago to be an audio engineer (still wish I'd followed through after the training, apparently I had/have a good ear and a good sense of how to get to wherea sound should be, I just don't know the people one would need to know to get a job doing that without pushing a broom for 5+ years, and I can't even push a broom at my house any more!)