Price Paid:  $200.00 from ebay

Summary:
Warm is the word that comes to mind. Also, the sound is smooth, and the notes are round. It's satisfying sound.

Strengths:
Round warm tone.

Weaknesses:
Hard to find a woking unit that still works - if you clean the pots with electric cleaner from radio shack, you might be able to get rid of static.

Similar Products Used:
Quad 405ii

Price Paid:  $185.00 from audiomart

Summary:
As described in many reviews the sound of this receiver is legendary. And do you know why. Marantz, Pioneer, and Macintosh are well known for legendary tube amplifiers. I have a theory that there were some capacitors leftover from the 60's vintage tube amplifiers that were used in the early transistor products, namely the 22__ series which includes the 2270. Polypropylene capacitors sound the best and there were plenty of polypropylene capacitors used in the vintage 2270, particularly in the phono section. The capacitors distortion is measured by electrical engineering parameters and the polypropylene capacitors are the most expensive but have the least distortion. The end result is extremely accurate imaging, very warm sound. This gives rise to the "tube sound". Capacitor distortion will distort the imaging, giving rise to a 2 dimensional sound without depth. Also capacitor distortion gives rise to a metallic sound.

Strengths:
Nice power, nice imaging, three dimensional sound. Built like a battleship

Weaknesses:
Periodically will need FM alignment, a few bulbs here and there

Price Paid:  $375.00 from Kingston, ON, 2006

Summary:
GREETINGS GO TO PEOPLE WHO TREASURE THE BEAUTY AND THE TRUTH BOTH IN MUSIC AND IN LIFE ABOVE ALL OTHER THINGS.

FIRST OF ALL: DON'T EVEN CONSIDER LISTENING TO THE 30+YEARS OLD VINTAGE EQUIPMENT WITHOUT SERVICING IT, OR YOU MAY BECOME ANOTHER BORING CRITIC OF THE THINGS YOU DON'T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT.

THERE WILL BE NOISES IN THE SOUND, AND IT WILL MOST PROBABLY SOUND TOO SLOW AND TUBE-LIKE, WITH HIGH FREQUENCIES ROLLED-OFF - BELIEVE ME, THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT WAS SOUNDING 30 YRS AGO!

FOR THIS MARANTZ, YOU MUST ADJUST VOLTAGE FOR 35V, IDLE CURRENT FOR 5V AND DC OFFSET FOR 0, BOTH CHANNELS. TUNER SHOULD ALSO BE ALIGNED. AGED SOLDER JOINTS SHOULD BE REHEATED. SOME CAPACITORS SHOULD BE REPLACED. ALL POTS/SWITCHES SHOULD BE CLEANED.

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FOR THE PRICE, ONE OF THE BEST RECEIVERS EVER BUILT.

THE BUILD QUALITY THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TODAY UNLESS YOU BUY A VERY HIGH-END GEAR, AND EVEN THEN THE SONIC SIGNATURE WILL BE MORE ANALYTICAL/MECHANICAL.

CONNECTS YOU WITH THE MUSIC AND HAS A VERY SPECIAL ABILITY TO REPRODUCE EVERY NOTE OF THE RECORDING - THIS TRAIT CULMINATED IN MARANTZ 1300DC, THAT CAN SOUND ALIVE WITH PROPER SPEAKERS.

ENOUGH SAID.

Strengths:
NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT FOR THE PRICE, !! PROVIDED IT IS SERVICED!!

Some vintage Tandberg, Sansui, Kirksauter, Sherwood, Nakamichi, etc. solid-state models sound almost the same or even better, again, for the same price.
Don't expect me to give you specifics - this is a trade secret.

Weaknesses:
STILL HAS THAT SOLID-STATE HARSHNESS / GRAIN (WHATEVER ELSE YOU CALL IT) - YOU WILL HAVE TO SPEND 12 K+ $$$ TO COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THAT FROM YOUR SS SYSTEM. THIS MEANS LISTENING FATIGUE IN THE LONG RUN AT AVERAGE TO HIGH VOLUME. TUBES LOVERS KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

FOR YOU OWN GOOD - DO NOT CONSIDER BOTTOM-END-OF-THE-LINE OF ANY MANUFACTURER.
FOR VINTAGE MARANTZ RECEIVERS, THIS IS ANYTHING BELOW MODEL 2250.

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ABOUT 40 VINTAGE RECEIVERS

analogguyinadigitalworld

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
4.31 of 5, 16.00 votes

Price Paid:  $8.00 from Garage sale

Summary:
A few months ago, I went to a garage sale in search of vinyl treasures, a.k.a. records. The owner, an elderly gentleman, pointed to a box with a few pieces in it, but there was nothing of interest to me. He then asked me if I would be kind enough to help him bring a radio out from his basement which was too heavy for him to lift. I said I would be glad to oblige. Well, the "radio" turned out to be a Marantz 2270 Receiver. I don't know what possessed me, but I decided to buy it. Now, you see, I'm an audiophile (actually a recovering audiophile, but more about that in a bit). Halfway home I asked myself; what was I thinking? Why did I buy that thing? After all, it's just a receiver.... A r-e-c-e-i-v-e-r. It's just a box with a tuner, pre-amp, amp, and a phono stage stuffed into it. Oh sure, I had heard of Marantz, heard it was good stuff, but let's be serious, it was built back in the Stone Age, back when Richard Nixon was president. How could it possibly sound as good as my cutting edge separate tuner, separate pre-amp, separate amp and separate phono section? Impossible. Absurd to even contemplate. So, after I got home I simply put it on a shelf and disavowed any knowledge of its existence. Then, a few weeks ago my fancy, expensive, don't-you-wish-you-had-one-just-like-it amp decided to have one of its regularly scheduled hissy-fits, and blanked out on me. Again. So, after I took it to the shop for repairs, I said to myself, what the heck, lets plug in that Marantz thing and see what it sounds like. Well, you Marantz guys know what happened next. Talk about a sonic epiphany!!! I was stunned. Instead of trying to figure out what kind of rosin the violin player in the third chair was using on his bow, I was simply listening to music, engulfed and enthralled by its beauty, something I had deprived myself of for a long, long time....... Now, about that "recovering audiophile" part. You can probably guess what happened to my audiophile equipment. It is now residing on the shelf previously occupied by the Marantz. This baby has transformed me from an audiophile back to a music lover. Is there any higher praise you can give a piece of audio equipment? I think not....

Strengths:
Connects you with the music, plain and simple.

Weaknesses:
Some, but essentially trivial and unimportant.

Chuck Knight

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.75 of 5, 4.00 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Back in 1974, I was 2 years out of high school and hung around with a friend who had purchased a Marantz 2270 receiver along with a pair of EPI (Epicure) 400's. The EPI 400's were commonly referred to as EPI Mini-Towers. They consisted of 4 - 1" tweeters and 4 - 6" woofers mounted in a tall, square, column. They were very power hungry and inefficient. The Marantz 2270 easily powered them to staggering volume levels with extremely tight bass and clear crips highs. The amp and apeaker combination was among the best of the day, and is on par with my bi-amplified system today running 1000 watts RMS per channed and Infinty Kappa-8 floor standing speakers that I currently own. The 2270 was bullet proof and would run easily at high volume levels for hours and hours. You cannot buy this grade of equipment today without spending many thousands of $$$$. This and other old classical gear of the 1970's such as Phase Linear, Crown, Dynaco, etc etc have no equal today in durability, quality, and tremendous power reserves for the money.

Strengths:
The 2270 powers 4 as well as 8 ohm loads with no difficulty.

Weaknesses:
None. Nothing compares today in the way of high powered receivers