Marantz 5400 Cassette deck

[Smitty1979]

Hey guys, I have someone wanting to sell me a Marantz 5400 Cassette player. Appears to be In decent condition but the cassette cover is missing? I had a quick look on the web for a replacement but zero showed up? Is this valuable without the cover or should I back away? lol Thanks

 

[eiraved]

I would buy it if working and at a good price, regardless of the missing cover. I'd probably create a cover for it by cutting a flat piece of Lexan from the hardware store.

 

[dankik]

Looks like a lot of wear on that black cassette tray and the wood side panel. Does the tray even pop up when you press the EJECT key? With that much wear on the tray, I would check the heads for excessive wear damage.

 

[Bone Yard]

Very collectable tape deck although loaded with 70's technology. The cover looks similar to other Marantz Decks from that time or you may even be able to 3d print it. Most of these horizontal decks were the first ones tossed during the 90's purge of vintage equipment so they tend to be much more rare than a vertical deck. If your getting it for a really good price I'd grab it.

While Marantz (along with Superscope and UNIX) did have some outstanding compact cassette players, most were ok, good enough to sell with other Marantz Components but I doubt people buying other audio brands were looking to add a Marantz Tape Deck. Since they're branded Marantz, they tend to go for much more than something that might be much better.

 

[Smitty1979]

Ok sounds good, thanks for the info, I’ll see if I can scoop it.