Best vintage Marantz receivers?

Finnegan, I have owned Fortes, Kg4s and still own early Cornwalls. Tubes, tubes, tubes. None of these speakers sound correct to me with solid state. If you are stuck on SS, something soft like NAD is your best bet.

Thank you. I'll prefer tubes but assume they will be more $$$$. The search
continues. Patrick

Any chance you could recommend a NAD receiver and/or NAD amp, preamp, tuner? Thank you again. Patrick

A couple of years ago I purchased a Marantz 2275 receiver here on Agon and sent it to Mike Zuccaro in San Diego for realignment and thorough check-out. It is in my second system driving a pair of AR-3s or Large Advents and it sounds fantastic. The musicality is what I remember hearing in the 50s,60, and 70s that I find missing from a lot of today's equipment
I find that I do not worry anymore about not hearing the 12th violinist play flat on a recording or someone turning pages. I just enjoy the total musical experience a hell of a lot more. When I listen to my main system, I am concentrating on depth, air, width of stage, imaging
and detail etc. It is difficult to grasp the musical aspect when worrying about all this crap. I don't even think about it with the other system.
Carter

I don't know about tubes being too expensive. Your Fortes are very sensitive. I powered mine, in a large room, with a Stromberg Carlson ASR-433 integrated amp that I bought off of the net for $150.00 and threw about another $100.00 at, including all new tubes. Not too spendy. If you stay away from the audio darling amps, there are plenty of nice tube integrateds for sale on the net.