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In Reply to: RE: I was reading up on the Marantz 15 dual monoblocks posted by airtime on August 15, 2016 at 09:06:44
Haven't listened to them in quite some time. I remembered them as rather warm sounding.
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This is the third time I'm typing this so I'm shortening it down.
My heart is in vintage and especially in Marantz vintage. So ending my audio daze with a fine vintage Marantz would be nice.
The 15 has an interesting bulb resistance circuit and some of the parts are no longer available. Making restoration difficult!
The 250 or 250M that I am interested in having one day I always felt it captures the pinnacle of the 70's sound.
Being not many people rebuild these things the job falls on my shoulders. One I really don't want any more out side of just recapping the piece.
charels
One of these days we should talk on the phone.
Sometimes a man wants what he wants and that is all there is to it (so go get a 250). I wouldn't advise the model 15. The parts that aren't made anymore can be subbed without problems. It is well built and sounds nice. I just didn't recall it being "special" although it was neat/cool. Honestly it was only the Marantz tube stuff that I found special. In that 70's era I liked the sansui 9090DB bettter than any of the 22XX/23XX models. However that dolby board is a nightmare to repair.....but you can run it as a straight power amp.
If I had it all to do over I'd forget the brand name on the face plate and look at the name behind the circuit. In no particular order (and I'm sure I'm missing many) I'd look into stuff engineered by some of the following.
Avery Fisher, David Hafler, Bob Carver, Dan D'Agostino, John Curl, William Zane Johnson, Hiroyasu Kondo, Dennis Had, Peter Walker, Gordon Gow, Nelson Pass, Stewart Hegeman, Sid Smith, Sidney Corderman, Jim Bongiorno, Tim de Paravicini, Vladimir Lamm.
Wonderful amp. Plenty of jump factor. In one of my less memorable moments, I sold it.
The United States is a collection of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.-Frank Zappa
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