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Any comments on the MA700 Mono Amplifier

SirPaulGerman

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I was offered a pair of MA700 Mono Amplifiers, I know they were designed for 5.1, thinking about using for a stereo set up.
There is not much info out there

Here are the specs
 

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It being Marantz, you're probably OK if the price is right. I couldn't find much of substance, either.
 

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Are they specs any good ?
By the standards here, they're rather incomplete. But what is there should work fine, unless you have exceptionally golden ears.
 

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By the standards here, they're rather incomplete. But what is there should work fine, unless you have exceptionally golden ears.
Or a very fertile imagination! :) Those specs, brief as they are, indicate an amplifier that's pretty unlikely to disappoint in normal use. The only issue I can think of is that there's no 4 ohm rating, only 8 ohms, so I would stick to 'speakers which present a sensible load.

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Looks perfectly conventional for the time, nothing wrong there.
 
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Some pics of the amp
 

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