Well It has II on the front of it, and indeed has ferrite cored
transformers and does sound nice so who knows the weirdness of uk
manufacturers of the period and their branding.
Since I've had it from when I could see, I should know what its called. I
have somewhere a service manual for it, but have no idea just where these
days!

In its early days it needed a new balance pot, but now the mains switched
volume is held together with glue and duct tape but still works very well.


It does put into perspective the planned self destruction of modern
equipment though. A Marantz amp from the mid 80s that sounded good now has
a fault where the mode switching is very confused and the tone controls seem
to work weirdly. I had a Pioneer receiver that ate dial lights and went
intermittent in its fm tuner and the dial string broke. My current Denon
from the 90s is doing better but I'e had to take the speaker relay cover
off so I can occasionally clean it when the channels start to disappear due
to dodgy contact aging.

I did have a very nice rather oddly named (Memorex) receiver built to the
din standard ie no phonos that was very good until one day it put 30 volts
dc through a loudspeaker and melted it.
So much for fault protection.


As for CD players, well...
The only one still without issues was made by Philips in 1983, but nowadays
is so slow at moving to tracks its painful. I fancy making the optical
stuff less massy and faster has just made them wear out faster.
My Marantz will only play cds when it feels like it and I'm now using a
cheapo Panasonic dvd player instead and it actually sounds better
That is progress.
Brian

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Brian Gaff wrote:


This is very odd. I have a Cadet II here its all in one unit and the riaa
stage is controlled by anoctal plug in device in one side of the
chassis.
IE Ceramic or Magnetic.


** What you have is a Cadet III, made primarily as an integrated amp but
also made as a separate amp and control unit.




Big play was made in the amp of it having ferrite cored speaker
tansformers
and several impedence terminals for different speakers.


** Ferrite cores in a valve output tranny ???

As Eliza Doolittle once cried - " not bloody likely".




.... Phil