bssmith1220
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I recently went to a friends house that is a vintage equipment/music lover and got hooked to look for my own gear. I made a call to my dad who I knew had had the same Marantz stuff since I was born. He had packed the stuff away about a year ago because it stopped working. He still didn’t want to give it up but my mom convinced him if he wasn’t using it and hadn’t fixed it in a year that giving it up would get some junk out of the house. So I ended up with his setup he bought new in 1983. A SR620CX receiver, tt1080 turntable, sd320 cassette deck, and two M10 speakers. So after poking around on here the equipment may be meh but I scored on the speakers! Funny thing is he never knew what he had in the speakers. He knew he paid $1500 in 83 for the whole deal but what he didn’t know was the speakers were almost $1k by themselves. My best guess since the speakers are older than 83 is the small marantz shop in his hometown had them leftover and packaged them with some new gear to sell as a package. And btw nothing was in fact broken, all works fine! I am missing the vari q plugs though on the speakers. One speaker was reconed in the 90’s but the rest of the woofer was kept so it seems to sound the same.
My only real hang up is would the speakers be done more justice by a higher end Marantz receiver? I mean this stuff worked for him for 35 years. Sorry for the long post. Just excited to find some rare speakers!
My only real hang up is would the speakers be done more justice by a higher end Marantz receiver? I mean this stuff worked for him for 35 years. Sorry for the long post. Just excited to find some rare speakers!