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Age & Treachery
I bought a very clean 2270 with wood case from a local SA yesterday. It powered up, the protection relay clicked, and an FM signal was indicated by the meters when I put my fingers across the antenna points. Has one tuner lamp out. Let's just say I bought it for lunch money and leave it at that. <G> They even gave me $5.00 off the tagged price because I have bought from them before. I've left their price sticker on the underside on the wood case just for future shock.
First Marantz I've had since the mid-70s/'80s when I had a 2230(?) receiver and a separate tuner I can't remember the model of either. Got the 2270 home, did all the normal cleaning and and lubing and measured DV mv at 65mv in the R channel and 86mv in the Left. Found the adjustment procedure instructions on AK (you guys rock!), but didn't mess with adjusting it right now because it isn't that far out of whack, and I wanted to see it how it sounded.
Sidebar: Is there really that much hearable difference between DC at say 0--50mv per side and the values I have? The adjusting pots still have the original paint on them and they have never been moved. As best as I can tell it may have been unmolested -- it certainly must have been in a cabinet because there was zero dust in it, and the wood case and face are an 8.5/10.
Interestingly it must be an early one because it was built in Sun Valley and not Japan, and has Motorola transistors and has gray Elon capacitors vs. the normal black ones I usually see -- but maybe they were swapped out. I don't know too much about this brand these days. Anyone have a service or owner's manual source I can pay for a copy of?
Also read in the archived threads on the 2270 that I should keep 4 ohm speaker impedance loads off it -- so for now I have it powering a pair of NHT SuperOnes (8 ohm) and ADS L-810 (6 ohms) -- only one pair at a time and I'm too old to get stupid with the volume knob.
How does it sound? It is a very "comfortable" sound compared to my Yamaha, Carver, Sony, and Nikko,and JVC receiver use. Probably closest to the Sony -- STR-6800 -- build quality is as good as that, and surprised me how close in component and build quality it comes to my Yamahas of the same era.
Gave me a bit more respect for Marantz -- although I prefer the cleaner look of the Yamahas (and it is light years ahead of JVC receivers of the '70s in looks, and also the Sonys). Definitely not going to be flipped out of here.
First Marantz I've had since the mid-70s/'80s when I had a 2230(?) receiver and a separate tuner I can't remember the model of either. Got the 2270 home, did all the normal cleaning and and lubing and measured DV mv at 65mv in the R channel and 86mv in the Left. Found the adjustment procedure instructions on AK (you guys rock!), but didn't mess with adjusting it right now because it isn't that far out of whack, and I wanted to see it how it sounded.
Sidebar: Is there really that much hearable difference between DC at say 0--50mv per side and the values I have? The adjusting pots still have the original paint on them and they have never been moved. As best as I can tell it may have been unmolested -- it certainly must have been in a cabinet because there was zero dust in it, and the wood case and face are an 8.5/10.
Interestingly it must be an early one because it was built in Sun Valley and not Japan, and has Motorola transistors and has gray Elon capacitors vs. the normal black ones I usually see -- but maybe they were swapped out. I don't know too much about this brand these days. Anyone have a service or owner's manual source I can pay for a copy of?
Also read in the archived threads on the 2270 that I should keep 4 ohm speaker impedance loads off it -- so for now I have it powering a pair of NHT SuperOnes (8 ohm) and ADS L-810 (6 ohms) -- only one pair at a time and I'm too old to get stupid with the volume knob.
How does it sound? It is a very "comfortable" sound compared to my Yamaha, Carver, Sony, and Nikko,and JVC receiver use. Probably closest to the Sony -- STR-6800 -- build quality is as good as that, and surprised me how close in component and build quality it comes to my Yamahas of the same era.
Gave me a bit more respect for Marantz -- although I prefer the cleaner look of the Yamahas (and it is light years ahead of JVC receivers of the '70s in looks, and also the Sonys). Definitely not going to be flipped out of here.
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