Marantz NR1200 2 Channel Slim Stereo Receiver

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Company & Product Overview When Saul Marantz founded the Marantz brand over 60 years ago now, his main goal was to produce the best possible stereo experience. Those original Marantz components, if you are lucky enough to be able to find them, command prices in the audio stratosphere now as they have become very collectible. Even the Saul Marantz designed stereo receivers of the late 1960s and 1970s go for thousands of dollars today in good condition. Fast forward to 2019 and you’ll find Marantz making a wide variety of home audio and home theater components. However, unlike some brands, who have just focused on home theater, Marantz also still has several models dedicated to two-channel home stereo in the form of integrated amplifiers and separate audio components. This part of the Marantz design team still cares a great deal about upholding the tradition of their founder in making audio gear that not only sounds good but makes you want to listen to more and more music. Today’s review is on the brand new Marantz NR1200 two-channel HiFi product. It is a stereo receiver and is the first new stereo receiver from Marantz in almost 10 years. Marantz calls it a 2 channel slim stereo receiver.Design & Build QualityThe Marantz design team had been noticing a trend over the last 3-4 years of a new breed of consumers who did not care that much about surround sound and were more focused on systems with turntables and streaming music in good old fashioned stereo. However, they were also noticing these same people wanted an easy way to tie in their stereo system into their TV to greatly improve the sound of those terrible TV speakers.To do this with a regular two-channel amp or stereo receiver can be a little tricky. Interestingly, Marantz has a team that concentrates on making great two-channel only gear at the higher end, and another team who designs the home theater products that are loaded with all kinds of great features. A light bulb went off that if they combine