Spotted this on Trade Me -

www.trademe.co.nz/electronics-photography/home-audio/amplifiers-tuners/auction-1426735505.htm

beautiful.

but sadly lacking functionality for a 21st century av system, it doesn't even have a multi-channel analogue audio input.

$2500 buy now ?

in the immortal words of darryl kerrigan...

" tell 'im 'e's dreamin'   "

stick it in a museum.

Well I'll be damned, it sold for $2120!

Way over what I was prepared to pay just to have the tuner.

ouch !

how about the maranmtz st8 that's been on tm for ages and ages

I actually rarely listen to the radio at home, its more a work, car thing for me.

But I do use an old TEAC TX550 I bought for $10 as my main radio source when at home.

i had a jvc that looked like that...

minus the leds, offset tuning knob, multiple toggles ...

mmm... maybe not so similar ....

it was silver !

I use this in preference to my Hitachi FT5500 Mk2 for two reasons.
1. The TEAC has a nice rich warm sound and 2. the Hitachi is black so didn't blend in with my other gear!

Oct 3, 2017 15:21:21 GMT 12 Citroen said:

I actually rarely listen to the radio at home, its more a work, car thing for me.

But I do use an old TEAC TX550 I bought for $10 as my main radio source when at home.

Visually delicious!!

Oct 3, 2017 20:40:17 GMT 12 Citroen said:

I use this in preference to my Hitachi FT5500 Mk2 for two reasons.
1. The TEAC has a nice rich warm sound and 2. the Hitachi is black so didn't blend in with my other gear!

My FT5500/2 is black and suits the rest of my gear! Love the sound as well.

I should probably fire it up in the new system, but as I hardly ever listen to the radio at home maybe not.

It will however be a better colour match to my McIntosh gear.

Gradually not becoming a McIntosh fan, as its done it again.

It was a firmware problem and so it was upgraded to the latest version. Very happy with the service I got from the importer Soundgroup but not so happy that its happened again.

So the Shanling is back on duty.

Aug 15, 2017 17:29:24 GMT 12 Citroen said:

Sad day @chez Citroen's

McIntosh pre-amp stopped working, so thought oh well at least I have my Plinius 8150 which I kept as a back up.

Hasn't been used for about a year but was working perfectly before then for many many years. Plugged it in and NOTHING. Fuse OK.
When moving it I noticed a slight rattle inside, as if a small piece had broken off something, or maybe a dead roach...

Have had to resort to using my bedroom system as a pre-amp.

Oh brother! Thats not good, i thought their reliability was pretty darn good, obviously not, so sorry to hear that

So back to soundgroup?

Manager & Product specialist at Rapallo AV & HI-FI

Yes, back to Soundgroup.

I wouldn't write off McIntosh reliability based on my one experience though, as frustrated as my lone voice may be at the moment!