How high it can go?

Superduper

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I guarantee it won’t go higher than $26000. By the way, I’m willing to trade 3x Marantz 2500’s for a sports car or mini excavator. Anybody?
 
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I'd be more worried as a seller than a buyer. It's eBay, and it's advertised as having extensive restoration work done. Whether it's totally unrestored, or fully restored, you aren't going to really gain anything from a computer video. The guy's not going to sell something for $26k without fully expecting it to be working as intended. These types of things need to be auditioned in person to fully appreciate. Then again, the "extra" value of this listing is that it is supposedly a #1 prototype so it's a collectors piece and for continuous use, a 2500 or production 2600 would be better. After all, you don't go driving around town with in a factory original L88 corvette or Boss 429 mustang, or original aluminum bodied AC Cobra. There's too much at risk just putting them on pavement. So you can expect that this unit would sound exactly like another production 2600, or even any 2500's since aside from having a few more output transistors, it's probably essentially the same.
 
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floyd

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For that kind of money I would have to have some kind of warranty or guarantee it's that simple .
Also when it comes to prototypes usually there are always differences in the final production model because the manufacturer us always looking for ways to save money and streamline production.
 
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Superduper said:
you aren't going to really gain anything from a computer video
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You'd know if it's actually working or not.
I could sell any nice looking piece of audio equipment on ebay and describe everything I've done to it and how it now produces the best sound of any audio equipment man has ever created.
With this, he's got it powered up in the pictures but you can't be sure it's actually producing any sound at all without a video.
I'm not saying this person is a con artist and this thing is a piece of junk but for that kind of asking price, a simple 1 minute video should be included to go over the basic operations (balance, treble, bass, volume, etc.).
Over the last couple of years, I always include a video when I sell audio equipment on there to verify that it's working.
If I was selling my GTO, I'd definitely include a video of it running if the site I was selling it on supported it.
 
BoomboxLover48

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If it is recapped, then the two original capacitors next to the toroidal power transformer will look much smaller. The new capacitors of the same values are much smaller in size than the original ones.
But some will remove the inside content of the original capacitor and use the cover to hide the smaller new caps in it.

I have recapped Marantz 2245 and replaced the two large caps with smaller ones but the higher models like 2330B and so on were all recapped by my expert technician.
I did only the LED upgrades on them.

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BoomboxLover48 said:
If it is recapped, then the two original capacitors next to the toroidal power transformer will look much smaller. The new capacitors of the same values are much smaller in size than the original ones.
But some will remove the inside content of the original capacitor and use the cover to hide the smaller new caps in it.
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Many technicians do indeed re-stuff the large capacitor canisters in order to maintain the original appearance, especially if they have decorative branding on them like these do. This is an extra service that is only done for collectibility reasons as there's no functional reason to do so. Also, it's possible to gang capacitors together to arrive at the same original value, but doing so would have a negative aesthetic affect, so in those cases, it's very likely that the ganged capacitors will be restuffed into the original capacitor shell.
 
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Superduper said:
Many technicians do indeed re-stuff the large capacitor canisters in order to maintain the original appearance, especially if they have decorative branding on them like these do. This is an extra service that is only done for collectibility reasons as there's no functional reason to do so. Also, it's possible to gang capacitors together to arrive at the same original value, but doing so would have a negative aesthetic affect, so in those cases, it's very likely that the ganged capacitors will be restuffed into the original capacitor shell.
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In some cases I believe in buying re capped amplifiers because many amps would be dead without it . as long as the person doing the work knows their business . and most true enthusiasts will insist on quality and reputation and a willingness to do or spend what it takes to make it right. I cannot stand the modem equipment I would rather buy a re capped 30 year old car amplifier than spend money on a new one. I don't think even to this day a car back in the 1990's hit 182 db spl reading has ever been beaten.
 
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Transistorized

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OMG that price is up there. Holy Smokes!

As far a capacitors, I am one of those people who fully support re-stuffing the caps so they appear original in collectible vintage equipment. The inside of those things is/was art as far as I am concerned. Beautiful inside and out.
 
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