Vintage Marantz 4270 $1400.
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Clean Looking
Sound Good
Great Receiver
This is the Marantz 4270 Quadraphonic 4 channel receiver or Quadradial as they called it.
It of course would also play in 2 channel stereo.
It was one of Marantz’s top of the line quad receivers in its day.
It was introduced in 1974 and retailed at around $700.
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It has 8 sets of speaker connections and puts out 70 watts per channel in stereo and 25 watts per channel in quad mode.
It weighs just over 40 pounds.
The 4270 featured:
STEREO 2 + QUADRADIAL 4 RECEIVER
FRONT AND REAR HEADPHONE JACKS
MAIN VOLUME CONTROL
BASS / MID / TREBLE CONTROLS FOR FRONT AND REAR
VARIABLE MATRIX DIMENSION CONTROL
MODE SELECTOR – SQ-DECODER / VARI-MATRIX / DISCRETE / 2 CHANNEL / MONO
SELECTOR – TAPE 2, TAPE 1, CD-4 AUX, PHONO, FM, AM
DOLBY NR SELECTOR – RECORD 1, RECORD 2, OFF, PLAY, DOLBY FM
MONITOR BUTTON – SOURCE / TAPE
TAPE SELECTOR BUTTON – 1 / 2
METER SELECTOR BUTTON – L / R
PLAY CAL KNOBS – L / R
RECORD LEVEL KNOBS – L / R
400 Hz TONE BUTTON
BALANCE CONTROLS – FRONT / REAR
FADER CONTROL – FRONT / REAR
HI FILTER BUTTON
LOUDNESS CONTOUR BUTTON
FM MUTING BUTTON
SPEAKER SELECTOR BUTTONS – MAIN / REMOTE
GYRO-TOUCH TUNER
SIGNAL STRENGTH METER
FM TUNING METER
8 PAIRS OF SPEAKER OUTPUTS
POWER MODE SWITCH – 70 WATTS X 2 / 25 WATTS X 4
AC OUTLETS – 1-UNSWITCHED, 1-SWITCHED
PRE OUT – MAIN IN JACKS FOR FRONT AND REAR
FM QUADRADIAL OUTPUT
REMOTE CONTROL CONNECTOR (DIN)
MUTING LEVEL CONTROL
AM FERRITE BAR ANTENNA + EXTERNAL ANTENNA CONNECTIONS
CHASSIS GROUND
REAR PANEL FUSE