Please /b help - I'd like to buy a new receiver and I found Marantz 2275. If I want to pair it with a phono...

>Nothing made today compares to the warmth and depth these old receivers put out.
hipster nonsense

Yeah, he's just regurgitating buzz words.

I've owned a lot of these things and they all sound different from each other, you can't describe them all as sounding the same.

>new receiver
>vintage

not the same thing. understand the chance of that having a decent amount of floor noise is high. to recap it you're looking at several hundred dollars. if the tranny is not outputting correctly one channel will be significantly louder than the other. And all of these issues are pretty damn high.

consider how much you are looking at spending on this amp, how much getting it up to full working order might cost. then consider something newer.

the teac ai series, nad 3020, emotive basx will all sound as good or better and you're not worrying about any of those issues. you can buy a competent preamp for phono for 100 or less.

subjectively and objectively wrong.

literally any 400+ new amp will blow these out of the water.

For the prices he is quoting, these should hopefully be restored units. Also, as long as it is working well and not a low end unit, noise floor shouldn't be an issue.

Have you had transformer issues? I've owned maybe a dozen vintage receivers and have yet to come across a transformer issue. Mostly caps, transistors, protection relays, and controls are the issues.

You're right though, they don't make a lot of economic sense if you aren't getting them cheap and fixing them yourself. 80s stuff gets a bad rap, but there are a lot of excellent receivers that are just as good or better than anything in the 70s and can be had super cheap.

Depends on the amp. If it's actually a quality amplifier/receiver, sure. If it's a cheap home theater receiver from best buy, it won't be as good at music, and won't have a phone preamp.

only transformer issue i had between 10 or so vintage amps was on a teac ah501, which I guess being 20 or so years old might be vintage.

But floor noise was always an issue with vintage. I finally broke down and bought an AI-2000 around 5 years ago and wont fuck with vintage again.

As an aside. Along the lines of
>hurr they dont make them like this anymore
I have been looking at the luxman l-550 a lot recently. Very old design.

Hmm, maybe your speakers reveal noise floor than mine. As long as I was using a higher model receiver (Marantz 2265, Pioneer SX-850, Realistic STA-2300, Pioneer SX-838) I never noticed it. Now on lower models (Sansui 661, Pioneer SX-535) I did.

the highest end vintage I had were the SX-1050 and an MC2105 with a couple different preamps. Depending on what you consider high end for vintage but generally these are up there.

Been running upgraded cornwalls for years now, so yea they are very effecient.

Yeah, having horn tweeters will make them super sensitive. Maybe one day I'll shift to newer stuff, but I enjoy finding stuff that people discard and bringing it back to life. You can't deny the workmanship and quality of materials that went into the older stuff. It's a shame stuff isn't still built that way, but if they were, only the wealthiest could afford it.