Marantz 2330b price question.

oldrocker

Mr. Msg,
I didn't loose any sleep not jumping on that one. I am a newbie to all this but thankfully I did not just fall of the turnip truck although I am "still gripping" the bumper

The whole nostalgia thing is what I'm after and eventually one will come my way. Probably not to stb's $5.00 example but who knows....

BDT

A wise man once told me that all things being equal:

A dollar a watt is a fair price.
The more buttons and knobs, the sh*ttier it will sound.

BDT

oldrocker

I just need to learn to install blue led's and I'd be a happy camper..

BDT

On a Marantz? Changing the lights is easy....they are just fuse lights. I've done mine before....and if I can do it, ANYONE can do it.

BDT

BDT

xcapri79 wrote: »

BDT wrote: »

A wise man once told me that all things being equal:

A dollar a watt is a fair price.

BDT

So that is why they make amps in China!

Huh?

I don't follow.....

BDT

mhardy6647

Does that mean a stereo single-ended 2A3 amp should be $7? With tubes?
Please pick up the next one you find; I'll give you an extra $5 for your trouble.

;- )

On-topic:

Scan_Pic0048 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

EDIT: Oh, if you happen to rescue one of those poor old Superscope-era Japanese "Marantz" receivers, there might still be hope for it...courtesy of the late, great vacuum tube hifi hacker, Fred Nachbaur.

http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk/tubestuf/gallery3.htm

Yeah, yeah -- he rescued an hk930... but... you get the picture...




;- )

mhardy6647

Scan_Pic0047 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

Jimbo18

Marantz 2230 for $460 and supposedly at least partly re-capped.
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/ele/4896057189.html

mhardy6647

Nutty money.

aprazer402

The nostalgia part of this hobby is very cool. But, if I had to advise a young person on putting something together, I would probably tell them, buy new or buy "recently made" used. Because reliability of the older 70's mid-fi units, which most receivers should be considered, will have issues unless they were gone over very well. Many young people today seem to have shorter attention spans and expect to have little to no maintenance on things. The types of repairs on vintage gear, as mentioned in other posts, are frequently required with purchases made from auction sites and CL. But "buyer beware" right. The older Polk speakers seem to be holding out very well, thanks to rubber surrounds, Polk's on-going product support and this forum. I purchased a new Kenwood KR-9400 receiver in '75 which I still use. It is still looks very good, but it has to have the controls cleaned and tuning calibrated every 5-10 years. I have not had the caps replaced on it either, which is probably overdue, but should I spend for that? "If it ain't broke don't fix it" or "git r done". Maybe I should sell it for more than I paid for it 40 years ago.

aprazer402

Marantz Ad August 1975

aprazer402

More vintage. NO AFFIL. Pioneer HPM-150 $750.00 Their photos are not actual, they used other's website photos. http://omaha.craigslist.org/ele/4914046575.html

mhardy6647

Ever hear the HPM-150s?

(I'm not a big fan, although in the interest of full & complete disclosure, I do have a pair of HPM-1100s... which aren't, actually, half bad with empathetic amplification)
HPM1100 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

The "HPMF super tweeter" was a solution in search of a problem, I'd opine.

aprazer402

Never heard the 150's. But I have a pair of HPM-100's, found about a year ago, $20.00 for the pair in VG+ garage sale, hard to pass up. They sound okay. Westmassguy has diagnosed me as a "hoarder", so I was a little reluctant to 'fess up I had more STUFF. Have a good one.

mhardy6647

Even I would probably pick up a pair of HPM-100s for 20 smackers.

The 1100's were freebies; all it cost me was the cost of a pair of the right foam surrounds & the effort of refoaming the woofers. They arent' bad driven by, e.g., a push-pull EL84 amp. They're down in the basement someplace.

Mikey081057

I got about $600 into this baby and it sounds incredible..

aprazer402

Very Nice!!! You gotta spend a lot of coin to get that sassy of a look today with new stuff.

sucks2beme

A piece that's mint and been properly rebuilt is going to be worth a lot more.
Especially if a known AK member did it. My issue is $20 garage sale stuff
they sell for $$$$. Kind of like old cars. If you can't work under the hood, keep moving. Paying someone else to do it isn't going to be cheap.
And note here: you aren't going to be able to really tell you like the
sound until it's been rebuilt. The au-999 Sansui is going to get a recapp
soon. Almost everything is on removable circuit boards, so I won't have to kill
myself to get it done.

aprazer402

For fun. I would rate the "looks" (not talking performance) of popular mid-late 70's receivers from top to bottom as: 1. Yamaha (we know which series) 2. Marantz 3. Pioneer 4. Tandberg 5. Luxman 6. Accuphase 7. SAE 8. Mitsubishi 9. Sony 10. McIntosh 11. Sansui 12. Harman Kardon 13. Kyocera 14. Technics 15. NAD 16. Sherwood 17. JVC 18. Kenwood. 19. Onkyo 20. Fisher. Probably missed some good ones.

aprazer402

sucks2beme wrote: »

A piece that's mint and been properly rebuilt is going to be worth a lot more.
Especially if a known AK member did it. My issue is $20 garage sale stuff
they sell for $$$$. Kind of like old cars. If you can't work under the hood, keep moving. Paying someone else to do it isn't going to be cheap.
And note here: you aren't going to be able to really tell you like the
sound until it's been rebuilt. The au-999 Sansui is going to get a recapp
soon. Almost everything is on removable circuit boards, so I won't have to kill
myself to get it done.

Exactly right! ^^^^ "Kind of like old cars. If you can't work under the hood"... then be prepared to deal with it. Some bad equipment probably gets passed around and around from one unsuspecting buyer to another. If you can't restore it yourself or if it doesn't add up to have someone do it for you (after you have that worst case restore estimate factored into your initial cost) then you probably should look at alternatives.

Nightfall

aprazer402 wrote: »

For fun. I would rate the "looks" (not talking performance) of popular mid-late 70's receivers from top to bottom as: 1. Yamaha (we know which series

Everyone remembers the CR's but the integrated amps (CA) were equally gorgeous. Classy is how I would describe mine.

mhardy6647

... predictably, all I can say is...

DSC_0242 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

(and they actually sound pretty good, too)

BDT

mhardy6647 wrote: »

... predictably, all I can say is...

DSC_0242 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

(and they actually sound pretty good, too)

I'm spankin' it like a red a$$ed monkey right now.

BDT

mhardy6647

Tattoos.

EDIT: Smartphone? Heck, my phone(s) are even stupider than I am.
Mrs. H does have a smartphone, though -- mostly, she uses it like a Minox (am I dating myself enough?) to take pictures of obscure and arcane genealogical records in dank basement rooms of off-the-beaten-path New England libraries.

My attitude towards genealogy -- folks invest all that effort, and sooner or later they're coming up with relatives with names like Zornk, Grog and Oonk -- a la some old Gary Larson The Far Side comics. Oops, dating myself again.

Oh, sorry -- was that a digression?

BDT

You are a sick, sick man.

I surrender to you, sir.

BDT

Mikey081057

This sweet... but expensive

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stunning-Marantz-2270-c-LED-Upgrade-Electronic-Restoration-Flagship-Case/231494972929?_trksid=p2045573.c100034.m2102&_trkparms=aid=555012&algo=PW.MBE&ao=2&asc=28797&meid=22c037026d074762980dc12a42197d7c&pid=100034&rk=1&rkt=8&mehot=pp&sd=191522774432

mhardy6647

One of the local vacuum tube audio gurus, by and large, has a deeply ingrained dislike for the sound of solid state electronics. New or old, cheap or astronomically priced... with one exception. The unsuffixed Superscope Marantz 2270. That one sounds good, says he... so I tend to believe it is so.