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When my brother was stationed in Japan early 80s, he brought home a Marantz 2325? With JBLL110 speakers, I remember I brought those speakers up to a place in Brooklyn New York to have them re-skind, Sold it never even realized what I had. What a bad ass sound system that was.

I have to admit, I do too. 😁

He had a 185w Pioneer SX-1280 he was waiting on a part for and then going to put up for sale. What a beast! 65lbs!

Paul Harvey said I could throw all of my “living full of burdensome hifi speakers and stereo receiver away” and that the Bose Acoustic Wave Radio was just as good even better.


So after my many years of sifting asbestos at Johns Manville, I got the Wave as a retirement gift to myself (chortle) !!. Hauled all that hi fi junk out for the trash man.

Pioneer’s have nice blue lights too, but not as striking as the Marantz blue.



I have a Bose Sound Wave in the kitchen, very convenient for Bluetooth or to listen to a CD.

so you guys that have those older systems, are you buying a turntable and playing vinyl records?

I have an old Denon in my workshop that I've had for years, and I ended up hooking a bluetooth receiver to the tape in, and I have a Amazon echo dot that stays connected to it so I stream music thru it when I'm out there.

Never had a Marantz - someone mentioned McIntosh - that is a receiver I always wanted to have but never had the cash to buy. About the best I could afford back in the day was a used Sansui

I was planning on a turntable and an RCA-to-lightning adapter for my iPhone. I’ve got a ‘01 Accord if I want to kick it with a CD or cassette.

Bought my current house 5 years ago and there were built in bookcases in the great room. There were a couple of speakers in the top shelf; could only see the grill covers. Hooked up a system to the wiring and thought, WOW, those sound good? Took the grill covers off and found a pair of mint JBL L100 Century's. BINGO! Those bring big money now

Man, we had Q102 and The Zoo stickers everywhere back in the 80's. I think someone gave me a Q102 shirt as well. Forgot all about those stations.

Turntables/vinyl? Aside from my 75 year immersion in music, and even though we have lived in various parts of the US and have moved a few times, I seem to be a hoarder of hi fi equipment. I have kept just about every turntable acquired since 1958, including Garrard, Rec O Cut, Thorens, Audio Tehnica, Tecnics DD, Miracord, Sony DD, Transcriptor Skeleton, etc. What a pile of flotsam - but I do use some of them.

Also have kept most of the vinyl - everything - from classical to jazz to rock/pop to show tunes to some country, to Christian etc. There must be 300 of them here - and recent MOVED THEM AGAIN.. Just nutso - but happy. So - yes - we do use the TTs and listen to old vinyl. I do think that tubes sound more natural.

Yes, I know that most of the surrounds can be repaired/re-foamed. My EPI 100 T/E could not be because the foam actually formed the cone with some plastic material applied over the foam. Unlike other speakers, the foam was integral to the cone. The only option then was to replace the woofers. I could have done that as Human had replacement drivers for them but I got to Jonesing after the Human Speakers.

Had a Marantz for years, it finally gave up. Picked up this Sansui solid state eight. What a beast, very heavy! and an old set of Kenwoods. Sounds good to me! (old deaf ears)!

Wow. Marantz was, and still is, the best.

Congrats on the vintage receiver!

When my friend picked it up the guy he bought it from said that it had already been relamped with conventional bulbs. The meter lights on the left look a little green which I understand can be that the diffuser is yellowed. But he did install a new power supply and replaced all the capacitors that were bad or leaking. Which I barely know what that means.

Hopefully he replaced the flux capacitor. We are boomers reliving our youth.