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Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Does this seem like a good deal? Guy says it works perfect. Still waiting on pics of the back and the casing (says it's not wooden, unsure if that's stock?)

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Used (normal wear), Marantz 2250b. Make an offer!;
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It’s not a 2250b but found its baby brother for a good price, only one owner. Gonna get it to a guy for lamp replacement but excited to be on the bandwagon. He also threw in the AKAI cassette deck.

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Melt Face Molly Drop said:
It’s not a 2250b but found its baby brother for a good price, only one owner. Gonna get it to a guy for lamp replacement but excited to be on the bandwagon. He also threw in the AKAI cassette deck.

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Pretty, pretty!

Looks from specs I found online that the receiver is 16 watts at 0.5% distortion into 8 Ohms. Hopefully you've got some very efficient speakers to hook up to this receiver and enable its very likely warm and sweet sound to come through and fill your room.

Despite the classic look of Marantz, my eyes keep getting drawn to the Akai cassette deck which is quite a looker on its own. Love the sideways meters!
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
It’s not a 2250b but found its baby brother for a good price, only one owner. Gonna get it to a guy for lamp replacement but excited to be on the bandwagon. He also threw in the AKAI cassette deck.

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Nice score. The lamp replacement on my 2235B was quite simple and pre-assembled kits are cheap and easy to find.
Do you mind saying what you paid for it? I’m considering selling the 2235. Thanks.
 
CraigVC said:
Pretty, pretty!

Looks from specs I found online that the receiver is 16 watts at 0.5% distortion into 8 Ohms. Hopefully you've got some very efficient speakers to hook up to this receiver and enable its very likely warm and sweet sound to come through and fill your room.

Despite the classic look of Marantz, my eyes keep getting drawn to the Akai cassette deck which is quite a looker on its own. Love the sideways meters!
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Oh yeah, those sideways meters definitely caught my eye and were icing on the cake. I fired it up and the meters seem to be working, and it moves the tape, but can't get sound out of it just yet. Back to the drawing board.
OMC said:
Nice score. The lamp replacement on my 2235B was quite simple and pre-assembled kits are cheap and easy to find.
Do you mind saying what you paid for it? I’m considering selling the 2235. Thanks.
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200 for the set. I imagine you could fetch quite a bit more for yours. The guy I got mine off of seemed to just want them gone, though I feel it was a fair price for both of us given the scenario.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Oh yeah, those sideways meters definitely caught my eye and were icing on the cake. I fired it up and the meters seem to be working, and it moves the tape, but can't get sound out of it just yet. Back to the drawing board.

200 for the set. I imagine you could fetch quite a bit more for yours. The guy I got mine off of seemed to just want them gone, though I feel it was a fair price for both of us given the scenario.
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Figured it out, had both speakers A/B selected on accident (testing on a mid-90s Pioneer), and seemed to do the trick.
 
CraigVC said:
Looks from specs I found online that the receiver is 16 watts at 0.5% distortion into 8 Ohms. Hopefully you've got some very efficient speakers to hook up to this receiver and enable its very likely warm and sweet sound to come through and fill your room.
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I'm running a couple of Klipsch B-20 8ohm 75 watt bookshelfs at the moment. This is the office setup but trying to get it to where I'm excited to throw something on vs. just waiting until I'm downstairs in the main setup area (which has more multimedia connected with it).

Always open to suggestions.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
I'm running a couple of Klipsch B-20 8ohm 75 watt bookshelfs at the moment. This is the office setup but trying to get it to where I'm excited to throw something on vs. just waiting until I'm downstairs in the main setup area (which has more multimedia connected with it).

Always open to suggestions.
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Internet says those Klipsches are 92.5 dB sensitivity ... which I think might be an excellent match for the 16 watt Marantz in a smaller room (which more than like is what "office setup" means). (y)
 
Would anyone be interested in a pair of JBL 4312b monitors? No shipping. Located in east TN? I put them up on marketplace today and thought I would see if any of my fine friends here would be interested.
 

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My first post in the Vintage Equipment thread...

I acquired a broken NAD 3125 integrated earlier this year (one dead channel) and fixed it up by tracing a bad capacitor in the signal path and replacing a couple other suspicious caps. A lot of cleaning was required, mainly to remove a thick layer of sticky flux from the back of the PCB and Deoxit on all switches & pots, and I touched up all the solder joints.

This thing was built in Japan probably around 1985. It came with some "interesting" character, like the 3 solder bridges visible in the lower left which were added by a previous owner (or the factory?) after that little board was cracked completely in half at some point!

It sounds amazing, especially for its 25W rating, way better than the cheap Technics receiver that preceded it. It was fun to work on and hopefully won't be the last piece of vintage equipment that I bring back to life ⚡️

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hahahaha_totally said:
My first post in the Vintage Equipment thread...

I acquired a broken NAD 3125 integrated earlier this year (one dead channel) and fixed it up by tracing a bad capacitor in the signal path and replacing a couple other suspicious caps. A lot of cleaning was required, mainly to remove a thick layer of sticky flux from the back of the PCB and Deoxit on all switches & pots, and I touched up all the solder joints.

This thing was built in Japan probably around 1985. It came with some "interesting" character, like the 3 solder bridges visible in the lower left which were added by a previous owner (or the factory?) after that little board was cracked completely in half at some point!

It sounds amazing, especially for its 25W rating, way better than the cheap Technics receiver that preceded it. It was fun to work on and hopefully won't be the last piece of vintage equipment that I bring back to life ⚡️

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Rad. I wish I knew more about this kinda stuff. I have a pair of KEF reference speakers that has the sound cutting in and out and have no clue how to fix them up properly…
 
A lot of cleaning was required, mainly to remove a thick layer of sticky flux from the back of the PCB and Deoxit on all switches & pots, and I touched up all the solder joints.

This thing was built in Japan probably around 1985. It came with some "interesting" character, like the 3 solder bridges visible in the lower left which were added by a previous owner (or the factory?) after that little board was cracked completely in half at some point!
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Unfortunately, that seems all to be pretty common in NAD products of that era. The circuit designs seemed to be superior to the construction and quality control. Clean them up and they perform quite well. The owner of Quirk Audio, a NAD resto-mod specialist, has said a lot about this.
 
Angsty said:
Unfortunately, that seems all to be pretty common in NAD products of that era. The circuit designs seemed to be superior to the construction and quality control. Clean them up and they perform quite well. The owner of Quirk Audio, a NAD resto-mod specialist, has said a lot about this.
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While we're on the topic, does anyone know where to source a replacement remote for a V1 NAD 316BEE amp? I've looked around and all I can find are some pretty dodgy looking Amazon listings. I feel like there must be a reliable source for these somewhere...
 
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