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If memory serves me correctly, the 8 track was invented for consumer convienence, having 4 songs to choose from versus the 4 track having only 2 and as was noted above, the 4 track had a lever you pulled to engage the capstan whereas the 8 track you just pushed it in. The 4 track was more prone to tape damage because of the 1" or so hole that allowed the capstan roller to enter the cartridge. it was very easy to snag the tape and ruin the cartridge. The quality was sacrificed for consumer convienence. I had my Muntz for years, never wanting to upgrade to the 8 track because of the much poorer quality. Back in those years I had an old 110vac converter powering I believe it was called the "Tiger" SS amp from popular electronics magazine and a pair of AR4A's in my VW Bus. Had some great times back then Those were the days......

Yes and the 4 track had better quality because it was no different than standard reel 2 reel except all 4 tracks were in the same direction, which could be played on the 4 track R2R's of the day. I had a Muntz 4 track for years.... Jack

Well I was hoping for a little more detail on measurements etc. I am willing to try this, I guess I will just have to lay one of the units down and figure it out for myself. I do have perfect corners, 5ft x 5ft on one side and 5ft x 4 ft on the other. I have no bass issues, My issue is the sweet spot is 9ft in front of where I sit. I want to do this so I can toe-out the top hat to move the sweet spot further into the room...

Jim, thats a nice 7200, those have a reputation for being one of the best direct coupled Macs ever built. I unloaded a bunch of Mac several years ago because I had amplifiers all over the house. wish I would of kept em. I do have another Mac I forgot all about a MA6100 that I have in the living room

And the Mac that feeds those lovelies

Another MC50 and MC250

My MC2100

2 more MC50's

My McIntosh kids MC240 Tube MC 50 MC50 MC7300

The 1400, 1700 and 1900 were marketed as a poor mans Mac, well beyond anything in its price range and definately something to proud to own. McIntosh also had another line but for the life of me can not think of the name right now, it started with an "S" which was even more priced for the middle class family to own. This line was out in the 70's but wasn't around too long, it fell right in line with the top of the line japanese stuff od the time. If memory serves me correctly I think it was the Mac 1700 that was a tube hybrid

Well I want to go get a piece of plywood tomorrow, but without pictures [|-)]

The MC50 mono was only made 1969-1970. They are a great little amp. I wish I had 5 more. The MC250 was made from 1967-1979 and the 2100 was made from 1969 to 1977. And yes "strapped" is running them in mono. I have to find the boxes with my service info for the design change info

It depends on the vintage of the MC250, a few years into the line they totally revamped the MC250, which they didn't do with the MC2100. I would have to dig thru some paperwork to see if I could find the differences. I have listened to strapped 250's vs a 2100. The strapped 250's rocked. I still own a 250, 2100 and 5 of the mono MC50's (they only made the MC50 for 2 or 3 years). A pair of the MC50's knock the socks of an MC250

Years ago my neighbor who was a service guy in the tube era gave me a hint about wiped off lettering. Take a lead pencil and lightly smear where the letters were and the lettering will magically reappear, until you wipe the graphite off. But at least you can see what it is. And you don't want to know where Michael Jackson's other glove is!

and one of my home automation pages, this is the interior lights

and TVLobby

XMLobby

DVDLobby

Couple screen shots Musiclobby

I built my own, I didn't skimp. The box also runs a suite called Cinemar mainlobby for a touchscreen GUI for my music, dvd's, XM Radio and my Home Automation system. A couple hints, Don't skimp. The box I built was about $1800.00 BUT it has 1.5 terabytes of storage, that is 1500 Gigabytes. It is on a raid 5 array, for those who don't know what raid 5 is, I can have a disk drive die, the system automatically swaps in a hot spare, and it can actually run one disk short if there should happen to be 2 disk drives that die at the same time without losing ANY data. There is a total of 8 250 GB sata II drives. It is a P4 3.4ghz with 4 gigs of ram and an M-Audio 1010LT sound card which supports 4 analog pairs and a digital out. I can easily stream 5 different audio sources simoustaneously with no effort. The digital feeds a McIntosh mac 3 DAC which feeds my C39 preamp. All of my music is stored in wav format, 1250+ CD's takes 600 GB and the 4 analog feed my Nuvo Essentia Whole House Audio system. The Cinemar Package along with J River Media Center has a nice GUI for the Music called MusicLobby, complete database for my DVD's called DVDLobby, able to send IR commands to whichever of the 3 400 disc changers I have along with satelite receiver control, TVLobby and XMLobby. Select a dvd on the screen and push play. Total cost for the Cinemar Suite is probably around $500 but it is in modules, you buy what you need. Programming isn't to hard, depending on how elaborate you want to get. Anyone wants a few more details, let me know Jack

I can't wait. My room is 30x30 so the sweet spot is in the middle of the room. I want to be able to toe the big boys out to put the sweet spot at about 24'. I am hoping for a cut sheet and lots of pictures

Thanks Mark, I thought I had read about the 400 but had no idea about the mid/tweet point. Now to fabricate some resistor networks for those frequencies for my Marchand and I get to play

I have a pair of 1997 khorns with AK3 networks. What are the crossover points? I have a Marchand XM9-2 active crossover I would like to try

any progress on this project? Jack

JJ, I will check it out. I originally wasn't going to try to go that far, but it may be worth looking into. My music server not only feeds my main and secondary audio systems but I have an 8 zone whole house audio system so I can have background music throughout the house