Best vintage Marantz receivers?

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.

The last 2275 I had was purchased at an estate sale for $30. Had the wood cabinet, too.

Sympaticonorm, check that other auction site for your 2275 user manual. Should find a service manual there too. If not found right away, keep checking

While I love the sound of my Marantz 2252B/Klipsch Heresy and Quartet combo, 80's and 90's Denon integrateds sound fantastic with my Klipsch. Very neutral with fast punchy bass and fine detail.

Bill