Hi all. I've been away for a bit distracted with life issues. I've noticed lately on the buy and sell sites here in Ontario Canada that Marantz units aren't up for sale near as often as they were a year ago and the pickings are slim. When the odd one does come up the asking prices are lower as well and they don't sell near as quickly as they once did. In fact it seems the prices are adjusted down over the duration of the ad in order to sell it. Is this a trend others are noticing as well or maybe it's just in my neck of the woods.
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But the days of $50 2325's .....
Hey...I bought one of those!! Many years ago though..
If only I had kept the piles of silver Marantz that have come through the door over the years.
That’s a common refrain. How many times have you heard us old codgers say, “If only I had kept that ___________(fill in the blank with any 60’s - early 70’s era muscle car.)?If only I had kept the piles of silver Marantz that have come through the door over the years.
That’s a common refrain. How many times have you heard us old codgers say, “If only I had kept that ___________(fill in the blank with any 60’s - early 70’s era muscle car.)?
Ouch!!Copy that. The only M receiver I regretted selling was a 2285 (non-B).
In the late '70s Marantz was considered pretty good, better perhaps than Pioneer, one could argue whether Yamaha was better sounding, but in any case it was not even in the same room (in my local stereo shop) as the McIntosh or Conrad Johnson stuff. Really upper mid-level, ... pretty much like a Corvette, not a Ferrari.
I like the comparison to muscle cars, because I agree that it is very similar. When my generation got to the point where we had extra money, we started to buy things that we couldn't have when we were younger, muscle cars! The Ferraris were always worth money (Conrad Johnson, McIntosh), but Mach 1s and Z-28s from the 60s were being crushed in junkyards. Hell, I met a guy at an auction that rescued an LP-400S Mura from a junkyard!