wseroyer
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I'm starting this post not because I want to know the difference between the two brands. But more because I want to ask the question of "Why does Marantz need to exist". Whenever someone ask what the difference is between the two brand, the answer that seems to pop up most commonly is "Marantz has a warmer and more musical sound", what the F does that even mean! So much of audiophilia is other audiofools just repeating what marketing says, and that's literally what Phil Jones has said in his Sound United webinars! I love Phil and I find his webinars extremely useful and insightful, but he does work for Sound United and is the Director of Global Training for the company. Which means he's teaching people how to market Sound United's different brands and how to sell them. Not to find concrete technical reasons as to why you should spend a extra $500 on a Marantz with exact same features as the equivalent Denon model. Maybe this sounds like bitching, but I'm getting tired of people just repeating the same things over and over and thinking they are hearing that "warm musical sound" because its been implanted in their head by the marketing division of Sound United. As far as what I can tell from Amir's measurement's and Reviews of Marantz's AVR's, is that they basically take a wonderfully built and engineered Denon AVR, put a toroidal transformer in it, then have the Japanese Scarface of Hi-Fi listen to it and he gives it that "warm, musical" Marantz sound that they are apparently known for. in reality what he is doing is basically is messing up all of the measurements and making the Marantz version worse. And you get to pay extra for the privilege of owning a worse product! Please tell me i'm crazy or that i'm wrong, but this has been the overall feeling I get about Marantz. When I see people buying their "AVR's" I can't help but think to my self, "why did you waste the money for something worse because of its Badge". And in reality that's what Marantz really is its Badge engineering, its the Cadillac Escalade of the the Chevy Tahoe, but GM actually gives you something more when you step up to the Escalade unlike Sound United.
Japanese Scarface of Hi-Fi
Japanese Scarface of Hi-Fi