Re: "Marantz used to be a name you would pay for"
It still is, if you're buying receivers from the 60s and 70s. I used to own a 2270 receiver (stolen in a burglary) that I paid $225 for in 1980. Today you can't touch that for under $600-$700.
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897