The 10B tuner came in at an incredible sum of money ($650.00) back in 1965. The unit would be the cause of financial ruin for the Saul Marantz company and eventually required the sale to Superscope to keep the doors open.
I beleive, the incredible talent of Dick Sequerra, Sid Smith, and Mitch Cotter (yes Mitch Cotter), and the use of those priceless Marantz power supply transformers (they dont wind em like that anymore). Take all of this and couple it to the famed Marantz all tube audio circuits and you have magic.
As a personal note, I think my McIntosh MR-78 on the last run CG series, not AD series, is overall the better unit. RF wise it is definitely a better unit and through an all tube system manages to sound close to a tube tuner.
But if you need the nth degree of ultimate musicality, its gotta be the 10B.......Frank
I beleive, the incredible talent of Dick Sequerra, Sid Smith, and Mitch Cotter (yes Mitch Cotter), and the use of those priceless Marantz power supply transformers (they dont wind em like that anymore). Take all of this and couple it to the famed Marantz all tube audio circuits and you have magic.
As a personal note, I think my McIntosh MR-78 on the last run CG series, not AD series, is overall the better unit. RF wise it is definitely a better unit and through an all tube system manages to sound close to a tube tuner.
But if you need the nth degree of ultimate musicality, its gotta be the 10B.......Frank