Solutions for a bad choice? New Onkyo vs Old Marantz
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| Posted on June 5, 2014 at 15:34:18 | ||
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Location: Las Vegas, NV Joined: June 5, 2014 |
After about 42 years of enjoying my Marantz 2240, I thought it was time to do a little upgrading. I couldn’t find anyone here in Las Vegas, NV to work on it anymore, and the closest guy I knew of was in San Diego, about 300 miles away. Every couple years the lights in the dial would burn out, the tuner knob would be slipping, and it would develop a problem where if I turned the volume up too loud, it would click and I’d have no sound until it was turned to a lower level. (Lucky neighbors!) I chose an Onkyo TX-NR626, for $500.00 in January. Dumb me, I thought Marantz didn’t exist anymore! I had told the salesman I wanted to stream internet music wirelessly to my stereo system. He said I could do that or connect with Bluetooth. A selling point was that this piece of equipment was designed with an eye to being able to connect with all the new technologies as they are developed. I brought it home, got the radio connected, thought I hadn’t set it up correctly because the sound wasn’t very good, but then put the rest of the setup on the back-burner. Thirty days came and passed. I couldn’t return it. I did get the rest connected (except internet connection)… AND THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF IT IS TERRIBLE!!! I have a Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntable. The quality of sound and volume I get out of that are much inferior to my old system. Same is to be said for my Sony CD player. I listen to much NPR, which is a lot of talk and it drives me nuts with “esses” that sound like “th,” no matter that I have it on full treble and everything else sounds like the inside of a metal tank! Are there any suggestions/solutions? Can I get a pre-amp to give things a boost and get better quality? Could I get a sound equalizer/mixer and hook it up between the audio output, and my speakers? So, what to do, short of selling the Onkyo for a hundred bucks less than I paid? I don’t need its surround sound capability; I rarely watch tv. I could dust off the good old Marantz 2240. (I also have my dad’s 2270, about the same vintage that needs some repair, and I also just found a Technics SA-GX470 that I don’t even remember acquiring!) If I go back to my old Marantz, is there some kind of component that can interface between my pc, my router, and my receiver? (I don’t want to hard-wire it.) I had something like that some years ago, but I don’t think they are made anymore. Don’t know what it was called. It was difficult to establish the connection. (Sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sorry such a long-winded post, but I felt like I was at the doctors, and thought you should know everything...LOL!
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