Superscope Marantz Stereo - Quadraphase System MS-60

This is the Superscope Marantz Stereo-Quadraphase combo audio system built in Taiwan, circa 1973. Designed by Marantz. It contains a stereo receiver and built in BSR turntable with a magnetic cartridge.

I think that the pink display is very retro cool! The sound and build quality are excellent. Quadraphase may have been a quadraphonic effect created by running 4 speakers having 2 of them out of phase. That's only a guess. There were several varieties of quad during that early 1970's fad.

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[kissarmy110936]

love to see a red one to :D you can tell it was made very well. things are not made like this any more. i love bsrs if it is one of the good one not the crapy ones lol. whish i ciuld fine a new record player mine skips on records and dont know why

[bluenazz]

@kissarmy110936 I've noticed that even good quality BSR's are getting tougher to find nowadays. I guess they went out of business about 25 years ago.

[lrd9999]

BSR must have seriously undercut VoiceOfMusic and Garrard. They owned that market by the mid '70s, mostly with those awful plastic-platter bargain-basement models. Ones like yours weren't that bad if kept in good shape. Both BSR and Garrard seemed to suffer more quality and aging problems than VM. My BSR was noisy and clunky until I sanded a paint drip off the inside of the platter and un-gummed the changer works.

[bluenazz]

@lrd9999 BSR was at one time the world's largest turntable manufacturer churning out thousands of them every week. Quantity but not quality (:->

[alcornsugar]

Looks like the unit I bought in my freshman year, 1970 for $125. My first stereo.

[bluenazz]

@alcornsugar That would have been a pretty decent first stereo for 1970! Thanks for watching!

[jogmas12]

i did not know Marantz built junk in those days and pink displays do not help the sound.

[lrd9999]

@bluenazz Have to admit that any turntable from the one you have up would sound fine to my ears as long as it's in good shape. I usually notice the flutter on the plastic platter models, but not these; I can hear the rumble but it doesn't bother me, though I filled the outer ring of my platter with 1/4" nuts and glue to just about get rid of it. Sound from even a decent ceramic cartridge is so much better than FM that I'm not sure I'd appreciate the improvement with a $200 turntable.

[alcornsugar]

The unit I bought in 1970 was just stereo. The $125 price included large bookshelf sized speakers with cabinets made of solid wood.

[bluenazz]

@Mrphatbastard1 Thanks for watching! I parted with the Superscope only because of that BSR and I have some regrets about it (:->