News From Insurance
The insurance claim is going to involve a lot more work, I think. We got a listing back and there are lots of things to dispute, and our computer parts list is missing entirely.
And they want to replace my Marantz 2270 receiver with this.......thing.
https://www.marantz.com/en-ca/product/av-receivers/nr1200
Do any of you know modern audio hardware well? This is the beginning of my argument that the receiver insurance suggested as a replacement does not suit my needs, and I'm wondering if there is other modern hardware that does. Or if you can think of any features of the 2270 I'm missing that aren't there in the modern one.
Phono input jack(s):
The 2270 had two phono input jacks, while the NR1200 has only one. I value the ability to use two turntables simultaneously to be able to compare quality of audio head-to-head, or to be able to switch records only with the delay of pressing the phono1/phono2 selector instead of having to remove a record from the turntable platter and place another one.
Tone adjustment knobs:
the NR1200 you suggested has two tone control knobs: one for treble and one for bass. The 2270 had three knobs for tone control, handling bass, mid-range, and treble. Also, the controls on the 2270 allowed independant adjustment of the left and right channels for each frequency range, while the NR1200 does not.
Jumpered preamp to power amp connection:
This connection on the back panel lets the user operate the preamp stage and power amp stage independently of each other, using any external preamp or power amp the user may prefer along with the counterpart stage in the 2270. One application of this would be for operating bi-amped speakers, where rather than a crossover network, the tweeter(s) and woofer(s) recieve signal from two different amps, allowing fine-tuning of the amplifer properties for low and high frequency sound. The 2270 could thus be used either as one of a pair of amps for the speakers, or the preamp output could be split and run to two different external amps and then to the bi-amped speakers.
"Quadradial" out jack.
The 2270s' quadradial out jack outputs "raw" FM signal, extracted from before any equalization is applied. Originally, the intent of this jack was to allow for connection to upcoming hardware to recieve quadraphonic FM broadcasts. Those broadcasts never came to be. However, this output also allows connection to a stand-alone RDS (radio data system) interpreter. The NR1200 you suggested does have onboard RDS display, but it does not allow for any special uses of that data such as connecting the output to a computer for processing and use by a system like RDS Spy (https://rdsspy.com/).