Tandberg 2075 MKII

motorhead43026

I am in the market for a vintage receiver. I sorta want to stray from the usual Marantz, Pioneer etc offerings. I ran across this Tandberg and it looks pretty solid. From what I can mine from the net it seems to be a desirable vintage brand. Would anybody here own one or have had owned one?

TNHNDYMAN

No experience with that model, but my dad had a similar Tandberg during late 70's and 80's that was sweet on some ESS AMT1's and a cool looking Teac A-650 tape deck. The rotary knobs could get noisy, but deoxit would fix that. Good sound, just not a lot out there if you need parts or repairs.

mhardy6647

Tandbergs look and sound great; they have outstanding tuner sections and more subtle and sophisticated tape I/O circuits than virtually any other receivers of their time (as befits a company best known for tape decks).

The downside to Tandberg is a certain reputation for reliability/breakdown issues; parts may be hard to very hard to find.

The 2075 (suffixed or unsuffixed) was a superb receiver overall, though, make no mistake about that. A good notch above the Japanese mass market brands of the era from my perspective.

GMM Receivers p2 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

mhardy6647

The innards of a 2075 (not mine, unfortunately -- as is probably pretty clear from that non-US mains plug):



There is one Tandberg Rx here -- kind of scratch and dent, but it does a fine job of sittin' and lookin' nice in that sexy Scandinavian way :- )

Scott and Tandberg by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

motorhead43026

Thank you for the information, Mark.

And what a coincidence, I had a good childhood friend with the name Mark Hardy.

mhardy6647

Probably not me :-P
(unless you happen to be from B-more... and, even then...)