Marantz is a company that develops and sells

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products. The company was founded in New York, but is now based in California. The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Saul Marantz in his home in Kew Gardens, New York City. The company had a major influence in the development of high fidelity audio systems, and reached the high point of their success in the mid to late 1970s. During the 1980s, while owned by

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, a pioneer in

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technology, Marantz sold some very well received CD players, but other products in the line were not as successful as in the past. Beginning in the early 1990s, Marantz focused on higher-end components. In 2001, Marantz Japan acquired the brand from Philips and owned all overseas sales subsidiaries. In 2002 Marantz merged with competitor

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into D&M Holdings Inc., later named

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History

* 1952 Saul Marantz sells his first audio product, the "Consolette" pre-amp * 1964 Marantz acquired by Superscope Inc. * 1966 Beginning with the Model 25, and then 22 and 28, Marantz starts manufacturing its products in Japan through a partnership with Standard Radio Corp. * 1974 A manufacturing plant is opened on the

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* 1975 Standard Radio Corp. changes its name to Marantz Japan Inc. * 1980 Superscope sells the Marantz brand, dealer network, and all overseas assets (except U.S. and Canada) to

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* 1983 Marantz's audio enhancement technology (Marantz Enhanced Digital Stereo) is introduced * 1992 Philips acquires U.S. and Canada trademarks and dealer network * 1997 Saul Marantz dies aged 85 * 2001 Marantz Japan Inc. acquires the brand and all overseas sales subsidiaries * 2002 Marantz Japan and

merge to form

D&M Holdings D+M Group, formerly known as DMGlobal and D&M Holdings, is a Japanese corporation that owned several audio and video brands. It was formed in 2002 from the merger of Denon and Marantz. It had acquired several other companies since that time. Prio ...

, to later be joined by other higher-end audio equipment brands such as

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* 2008 Philips sells its remaining stake in D&M Holdings, ending a 28-year relationship between Philips and Marantz * 2014 Marantz Professional acquired by

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* 2017 Sound United LLC acquires D+M Group * 2019 Ken Ishiwata dies aged 72 * 2022 Masimo acquires Sound United LLC

Products

Selected products:
Marantz 2325 ReceiverMarantz 2275 Receiver
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Marantz 2600 The Model 2600 was the most powerful stereo receiver made by Marantz, and one of the most powerful receivers of the "monster receiver" era of the 1970s, among the Technics SA-1000, rated at 330 watts per channel is #1 ef. technics sa-1000 offici ...

– Marantz's most powerful receiver
Marantz 10b TunerMarantz 2385 Receiver
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Marantz HD77 HD77 is a model name of Marantz 4-way high-fidelity loudspeakers produced during the mid-1970s. They were bass reflex speakers but came with a cylinder (geometry), cylindrical piece of foam which fit into the bass-reflex port of the speaker box, e ...

– Four-way,

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loudspeaker system *

Marantz PMD-660 Manufactured by Marantz, the Marantz PMD-660 is a portable, solid-state, compact flash audio field recorder. It has 2 XLR (balanced) inputs, 2 line-in inputs, 2 internal microphones and can record in raw WAV or MP3 formats. It is powered with four ...

– solid-state recorder * Marantz CD63, CD63SE and variants - iconic CD player range * Marantz UD7007 - Universal HD

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player * Marantz PM-KI Ruby - Ken Ishiwata signature reference 2 channel integrated amplifier * Marantz MM8077 - 7 channel amplifier with XLR and

RCA RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent pool, patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghou ...

inputs * Marantz M-CR612 - Network CD receiver * Marantz SR7011 - 9.2 Channel Network Receiver * Marantz SR8012 - 11.2 Channel Network AV Receiver * Marantz SR8015 - 11.2 Channel Network Flagship AV Receiver * Marantz AV8805 - 13.2 Channel Network AV Pre-Amplifier

References

External links

Marantz global

Marantz America

Online Audio Museum "TheVintageKnob"

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