Who is going to pay $15,000 for an amplifier!!
I would rather go on vacation with that money!Way more people than you think. Marantz has made limited edition runs of product in the past where they only built 500 units. This is not a limited edition AFAIK. They will sell a few thousand I expect.
Those are absolute pennies in high end audio or luxury home theater bizWho is going to pay $15,000 for an amplifier!!
It’s probably closer to 19% but that’s IRS data. Much of that is based off of real estate inflation and doesn’t factor in mortgage debt or other debt. It also includes 401k’s and other retirement accounts. Most families worth 1 million are living paycheck to paycheck which current cost of living and spending habits. Sure many of them could buy a $15,000 receiver but they probably shouldn’t.25% of US families have over $1 million in assets.
10% of US families have assets above $7 million.
There's certainly money available for this type of purchase. It's simply a matter of whether someone desires it.
At this stage in my life and with the room and money to spend, I'd sooner have a set of KH420s and a suitable preamp to drive them I think (I have various analogue and digital sources)...With Marantz, discount pricing is more common than Accuphase. Personally this looks better than Accuphase.
A lot of this is also marketing to make the lower level products attractive.
I reserve audiophoolville for things like crystals and weights on top of electronics and speakers.
By audible standards, no one has needed to upgrade their electronics since the 1960s
As an aside, people living within easy commuting distance of London (the 'home counties' in other words) are seeing a 'humble' mid-wars three-bed-semi pushing dangerously close to a million quid and a detached house of similar age can be well over a million now I gather. Again, huge mortgage, commute fares (one kind-of balances out the other), childcare fees as both have to work full time and a leased huge SUV-style tank (sorry, vehicle), wipe out any free cash they may have (oh, and the phone and Sky TV contract that's mandatory these days).It’s probably closer to 19% but that’s IRS data. Much of that is based off of real estate inflation and doesn’t factor in mortgage debt or other debt. It also includes 401k’s and other retirement accounts. Most families worth 1 million are living paycheck to paycheck which current cost of living and spending habits. Sure many of them could buy a $15,000 receiver but they probably shouldn’t.
At this stage in my life and with the room and money to spend, I'd sooner have a set of KH420s and a suitable preamp to drive them I think (I have various analogue and digital sources)...
I have to ask, has all this cladding in copper actually been proved to be beneficial?
That's an original Marantz unit, not this Purifi garbage disguised as Marantz.It was actually 1979/80 when it first came out. In production for at least 6 years IIRC.
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Marantz Sm 1000 on thevintageknob.org
vintage Marantz ESOTEC power-amplifier - the very last of the USA Marantzwww.thevintageknob.org
I've only ever seen one and that was ~15 years ago. It was a writeoff due to a bad technician. The owner wanted to give it to me for free at the time I picked up a Sansui receiver for parts and I foolishly said no thanks. It was too badly destroyed internally and I knew it would end up in my storeroom forever. With hindsight, I should have taken it.
So Purifi is garbage...That's an original Marantz unit, not this Purifi garbage disguised as Marantz.
Seriously, that is an impossible to defend position. Please define your terms. What constitutes Purifi as garbage?That's an original Marantz unit, not this Purifi garbage disguised as Marantz.
It doesn't weigh 90lbs.Seriously, that is an impossible to defend position. Please define your terms. What constitutes Purifi as garbage?
15k€/$/£ means literally entry level High End. So quite a few people, I would say...Who is going to pay $15,000 for an amplifier!!
Class DPlease define your terms. What constitutes Purifi as garbage?
I can't tell if this is trolling or not.Class D
I’ve always wondered, who the heck is picking their amps up and moving them around all the time. Mine tend to stay put for about a decade, a few minutes of sweat isn’t a big deal.It doesn't weigh 90lbs.
I can barely lift my Monolith-7X at 93lbs.
My Purifi weighs 6lbs. It's a dream come true to move around.
On top of that, I can't distinguish an audio difference switching between Monolith-7X and Purifi after compensating for gain. However, the Monolith 7X will get warmer and uses almost 10x more Watts while idle.
We want amps that break your back when you pick them up so they are less likely to be stolen and we need a foot warmer as well as to support the power company with tons of phantom power use. Right?