What hifi team Marantz review?

[Anonymous]

thanks for that bit of help, almost bought the cambridge audio 540 January last year, but stupidly decided to hold off as i expected them to have a new one out by now, never happened! Was beginning to think no one else had space limitations, would love to be able to buy purely on what i can afford, as things stand its an old CA 340,540, NR 1501 or an all in one system which i have now and thats about it. Will have to bite the bullet and see if i can get a demo down at richer sounds.

 

[ear]

its a bit more expensive than others, but if you have the space limitation I guess you wonte regret the buy.

 

[Anonymous]

Some good bargains on this at the moment if you look around ... sub £300

 

[ayjaycee]

For what it's worth, I too have the Marantz NR1501 which I use with a Mordaunt Short MS902s, a Mordaunt Short Alumni centre (ie. no sub), PS3, Humax Freesat PVR, Marantz CD Player (can't remember which one) and Panasonic 42PX70 TV. Like a lot of others, the 1501 is perfect for me due to space constraints and I bought it to replace a similarly sized Cambridge 540R V2. In my opinion, it delivers a very good performance and is a definite step up from the CA receiver which I also thought was pretty good (aside from lack of HDMI in this modern age!).

Interestingly, the Marantz is only rated at 50WPC whereas the CA is 100WPC but I would say that the Marantz is louder if anything. I had been considering the purchase for a while when the Marantz was sold by Richer Sounds at £400 but was waiting for a What HiFi review - in the end, Richer dropped the price by quite a large lump and I therefore decided to go ahead anyway and don't regret it one bit. As an aside, I believe that Marantz have now announced the successor to the NR1501 (ie. the NR1601).

Hope this helps.

 

[Anonymous]

ayjaycee:
For what it's worth, I too have the Marantz NR1501 which I use with a Mordaunt Short MS902s, a Mordaunt Short Alumni centre (ie. no sub), PS3, Humax Freesat PVR, Marantz CD Player (can't remember which one) and Panasonic 42PX70 TV. Like a lot of others, the 1501 is perfect for me due to space constraints and I bought it to replace a similarly sized Cambridge 540R V2. In my opinion, it delivers a very good performance and is a definite step up from the CA receiver which I also thought was pretty good (aside from lack of HDMI in this modern age!).

Interestingly, the Marantz is only rated at 50WPC whereas the CA is 100WPC but I would say that the Marantz is louder if anything. I had been considering the purchase for a while when the Marantz was sold by Richer Sounds at £400 but was waiting for a What HiFi review - in the end, Richer dropped the price by quite a large lump and I therefore decided to go ahead anyway and don't regret it one bit. As an aside, I believe that Marantz have now announced the successor to the NR1501 (ie. the NR1601).

Hope this helps.

That's where I was referring to... but didn't want to specifically mention it. Picking mine up on Saturday as it's been transferred from another store. Very few left in their branches now.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replys like you was hoping for a review of the Marantz NR1501 but when richer sounds dropped the price i thought what the hell,its worth the risk. Unfortunately 4 weeks later and i havent heard what it sounds like as i still dont have any speakers, though 2 weeks on saturday that should be sorted! had another thread running on what speakers to buy they had to be small and under £400 but as of yesterday richer sounds sent out their e-mail offer and the Jamo A102 package is now down to £199 so again cant resist. Hopefully the end result will be worth while. At least it will be a step up from my pioneer all in one system!

 

[ayjaycee]

Hopefully both Alan T and Eremis 6 can give us all an opinion when they get set up.

 

[Anonymous]

Ye will do will end up needing advice on setting up the sub as ive no idea about phase and crossover ect, so expect some questions everyone!