Nice looking amplifier! Nice & clean layout. I had the honor of meeting Saul Marantz in the mid 1970's. He told me they Had to design and build an RF generator to align the 10B tuner. There were no RF generators with the spec's needed to align the tuner. He told me they were thinking of putting the generator on the market. He decided he didn't want to go into test equipment production! The 10B was so advanced for its time! It's still a great Tuner! I got to meet him twice! I'll never forget what a nice man he was and GREAT engineer!!!
Great video, followed what you did & got my old Marantz 1070 back up & running, sounds great. The amp hadn't been used since the early 90's; I kept it in storage as a back up amp for my present pre-amp/ power amp combo. Well my main power amp is out being serviced so out comes the old Marantz, It was scratchy sounding & the left channel would drop out at times. Cleaned every switch, slider & rotary control with DeOxit5 & it sounds great. Thanks for making this video !! Cheers !
Just did the same to my 1070; haven't used it in decades but my Nikko power amp went in for service. Brought out the 1070, followed the video ; now I'm really enjoying listening to the Marantz(was my1st amp back in '75 !!) Cheers !
that seems like fun. sorta reminds me what i did to my 8 track player minus the no contact cleaner atm. had to made do for time being .then i put it away for awhile then sadly i forgot it was on the thing and i snapped the volume knob slider off kinda made me mad now i have to find some kinda epoxy or something to put it back on cause it wont stay on right.
Nice easy fix again, which I'm sure are far & few between. The size of that transformer-WOW, just to make it a linear. That thing will last forever with the way it's made, & sound real good.
I noticed that large power transformer. I remember seeing one like that in my Dad's Tube console record player/Radio. The system stopped working so I took the transformer out. An electronics teacher helped me figure out what all the voltages were on the outputs. I don't have it anymore.
Hello there...quick question...I have a JBL PRX718xlf powered subwoofer model and its having an amplifier problem.....what its doing as when I power the unit up the subwoofer was making like a pop crackling weird type noises...as I disconnect the input from the unit I can hear a slight humming sounds with a little bit of crackling and when I put a input signal to it the sub the sub sounded very low on power and very distorted sounding and when I power the unit off I can hear like a thump sounds thru the sub as well too...I have no idea of why the sub is acting in a strange way and I had it for 2 years and never have any problems with it....and the next day as I took the amplifier out of the box from the sub and tested the sub with another amplifier it work fine with no problem and I knew that there is something wrong with the amplifier itself...Im assuming its the power supply problem going on within the amplifier itself and I have no clue of how to fix it.....I got a video loading up now soon if you like to see it on my channel about the problem.....I just wanna know what should I do.....Thanks.
That generation Marantz (still made in USA) must have been one of the last generation ones before manufacturing went over to Asia. Very nice built by hand quality like McIntosh used to be.
simple maybe this one is. there are the tuner amps where they are a pain to work on i own a tuner amp marantz and that one is heavy and a pain to have to work on. i have one of the dolby units which it took me a while to find and i had traded for it. but mine needs lots of work a new power cord, fuse and a little other work and should be good. mine weighs bout 50 lbs
I owned a early 70s 1060 marantz and it lasted until about seven years ago when it’s left channel blew. I don’t know how but most likely I shorted it out, by accident. Rest easy old Marantz! It had a very detailed, warm kind of sound coming from the monitor audio speakers I had hooked up. Great video mate!
I have a marantz console stereo amplifier pm310 circa 1985 with speakers i did have a tape deck for it but it died so i got a kenwood tape deck to replace it and have a bush turntable my next door neighbour gave me it18 years ago just after his youngest son was born and its a great amplifier he got it as a wedding present from his parents when he got married the volume control is a bit crackly but other than that its ok
If it was mine I might change them out at some point. I'll be working on my luxman hybrid amp soon and I might just recap that for shits and giggles and see what difference it makes as they are all 1982 vintage.
I notice how long it takes the lead to go off after power down - I wonder if the old bulb and resistor were used as a discharge path for the main smoothing capacitors? Richard
One more question: the output of my 1060 is unbalance; the left is louder than the right both through headphones and speakers; and both through the phono and aux input, so I do not think it's necessarily an issue with the preamp. What do you recommend I do to fix this?
Nice chick corea at the end. I was fortunate enough to meet him backstage at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York. Very cool and humble guy. Got him to autograph my favorite copy of 'Now he sings, now he sobs'. Cheers
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Are incandecsent christmas lights robust enough to be used as the pilot light? The small ones I am referring to.
Probably, but an LED will never burn out, and in this instance you will never know. For meters I always prefer the glow of incandescent bulbs, but my old replica vintage GE sure looks nice with WW led.
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@@12voltvids In the future, i'll put one in a amp I have with a blown bulb. I'll try it and make a video. BTW the blue led in that Marantz looks really good, nice choice of color, seems to match the vintage Marantz vibe.
Yes I have a few cans of the good stuff that really worked well before the EPA got their hooks into it and yanked it off the market. All because of a little hole in the ozone.
Good old technology, nice wafer input selector :-D I don't think that mains transformer is big enough lol :-D i do like the old analog tech, no fancy digital crap. Yes im biased lol.
@@jimreardon6599 Thanks for pointing that out. I clearly got my wires crossed from a previous video of the Dynaco PAS3 valve preamp which I watched immediately preceding.
I always turn off any input signal(s) and check for any noise in a pot or switch. With no input, you can hear even the slightest snap, crackle, or pop. Plus you can hear most any transistor that has gone "noisy" (not every time though). But then, I am extremely thorough. I don't like any anomaly. I also insist on at least changing out the main filter capacitors to steady out the ripple as a minimum. Bass will improve remarkably, as well as reducing distortion at higher loads. Electrolytics of that age are just ticking time bombs. The paper inside goes acidic (think of an old newspaper), becomes brittle and can fail catastrophically, or subtly, depending on where the circuit. I have also seen them leak the electrolyte at under 20yrs, corrode, and even eat the PC board away! I am sure you already know all about it, But a lot of people have no clue though about just how much damage can occur when caps fail. The Marantz, and others of these vintage years, deserve the "refresher" to live on! Like the old saying goes; "You can pay me now, or pay me (more) later". ;-)
Slick job with the LED. That was really nice looking and nice and bright. Also, what did you clean the pots, sliders, and switches with? Deoxit would have been too expensive the way you were spraying it.
I know this has nothing to do with anything, really, but I would guess that the power indicator light would originally appear to be white on the outside? The incandescent bulb would glow yellow and the indicator lens is blue, thus tinting the light white, much like how manufacturers in the past would use colored rubber caps over incandescent bulbs to make them appear the desired color.
No the power indicator was blue. Incandescent bulb is white. White light shining though a blue lens gives a blue color, just as with the white LED. Incandescent bulbs actually radiate all spectrum, more to the red spectrum when run dim, but they are still much more full spectrum than say LED. White LED actually use blue diodes, and the blue light excites yellow phosphor, which when mixed with the blue gives the appearance of white light.
@@12voltvids That's interesting. The reason I thought the indicator might have originally been white was because on my old car, the instrument cluster was illuminated by incandescent bulbs with blue rubber caps on them and they shone through as white. Same with a couple of my older tuner decks with illuminated tuning scales. Well, guess you learn something different every time.
@@jonathanlau1221 The blue rubber cap just slightly tinted the bulb. The thick blue plastic lens would definately show blue. I remember servicing these units.
So...so...well made AMP by Marantz .depsite that being an old amp that's what sets a quality AMP like that to a crappy £100 AMP anyday .My Marantz SA-15 CD/SACD is exactly the same so well laid out electronics easy to work on and that workmanship is just plain to see .
Nice looking amplifier! Nice & clean layout. I had the honor of meeting Saul Marantz in the mid 1970's. He told me they Had to design and build an RF generator to align the 10B tuner. There were no RF generators with the spec's needed to align the tuner. He told me they were thinking of putting the generator on the market. He decided he didn't want to go into test equipment production! The 10B was so advanced for its time! It's still a great Tuner! I got to meet him twice! I'll never forget what a nice man he was and GREAT engineer!!!
Can't believe how clean the inside of that Marantz is! Also you make everything you do look so EASY and SIMPLE. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Great video, followed what you did & got my old Marantz 1070 back up & running, sounds great. The amp hadn't been used since the early 90's; I kept it in storage as a back up amp for my present pre-amp/ power amp combo. Well my main power amp is out being serviced so out comes the old Marantz, It was scratchy sounding & the left channel would drop out at times. Cleaned every switch, slider & rotary control with DeOxit5 & it sounds great. Thanks for making this video !! Cheers !
What a great amp!! I remember those! Nice job with the "tune up". Nice turntable too!
Nice work! Sounds pretty warm - classic Marantz.
Awesome album! One of my favorites.
Just did this to my Marantz 1070. no more scratchy pots or sound dropping out. I'd forgotten how sweet it sounds. Thanks
Just did the same to my 1070; haven't used it in decades but my Nikko power amp went in for service. Brought out the 1070, followed the video ; now I'm really enjoying listening to the Marantz(was my1st amp back in '75 !!) Cheers !
Hey no chillowack ! Great job as allways !
That is one giant transformer,,,
Excellent tune up cheers 🍻🍻🇺🇸🇺🇸
Can see the great build quality in that one
Wow that thing is spotless inside. Have you shared your audio system with us. I just started watching your handy work, and I like your style.
that seems like fun. sorta reminds me what i did to my 8 track player minus the no contact cleaner atm. had to made do for time being .then i put it away for awhile then sadly i forgot it was on the thing and i snapped the volume knob slider off kinda made me mad now i have to find some kinda epoxy or something to put it back on cause it wont stay on right.
Good job pro
that machine looks awsome, i love marantz
May I ask what spray you were using for the scratchy pots?
Nice easy fix again, which I'm sure are far & few between. The size of that transformer-WOW, just to make it a linear. That thing will last forever with the way it's made, & sound real good.
I noticed that large power transformer. I remember seeing one like that in my Dad's Tube console record player/Radio. The system stopped working so I took the transformer out. An electronics teacher helped me figure out what all the voltages were on the outputs. I don't have it anymore.
Hello there...quick question...I have a JBL PRX718xlf powered subwoofer model and its having an amplifier problem.....what its doing as when I power the unit up the subwoofer was making like a pop crackling weird type noises...as I disconnect the input from the unit I can hear a slight humming sounds with a little bit of crackling and when I put a input signal to it the sub the sub sounded very low on power and very distorted sounding and when I power the unit off I can hear like a thump sounds thru the sub as well too...I have no idea of why the sub is acting in a strange way and I had it for 2 years and never have any problems with it....and the next day as I took the amplifier out of the box from the sub and tested the sub with another amplifier it work fine with no problem and I knew that there is something wrong with the amplifier itself...Im assuming its the power supply problem going on within the amplifier itself and I have no clue of how to fix it.....I got a video loading up now soon if you like to see it on my channel about the problem.....I just wanna know what should I do.....Thanks.
That generation Marantz (still made in USA) must have been one of the last generation ones before manufacturing went over to Asia. Very nice built by hand quality like McIntosh used to be.
Yep those were the last USA made Marantz before Superscope took mfg offshore. The real deal!
I have this model somewhere in my attic... it came with a wooden enclosure... hope its still there....
Damn that marantz amp is sexy. The inside is so clean, very nice amp, reliable and simple.
simple maybe this one is. there are the tuner amps where they are a pain to work on i own a tuner amp marantz and that one is heavy and a pain to have to work on. i have one of the dolby units which it took me a while to find and i had traded for it. but mine needs lots of work a new power cord, fuse and a little other work and should be good. mine weighs bout 50 lbs
santi0797 Not the new ones.
I owned a early 70s 1060 marantz and it lasted until about seven years ago when it’s left channel blew. I don’t know how but most likely I shorted it out, by accident. Rest easy old Marantz! It had a very detailed, warm kind of sound coming from the monitor audio speakers I had hooked up. Great video mate!
Do you know where I can find the exterior fuse cap? I have one that is missing that, so I cannot even start my testing until I can add a fuse.
Mine needs some work like this. How much would I expect this service/repair cost?
Good job
Hi! Tell me please, what kind of spray do you use for cleaning resistors and switches? Thanks!
It's called Deoxit
I have a marantz console stereo amplifier pm310 circa 1985 with speakers i did have a tape deck for it but it died so i got a kenwood tape deck to replace it and have a bush turntable
my next door neighbour gave me it18 years ago just after his youngest son was born and its a great amplifier he got it as a wedding present from his parents when he got married the volume control is a bit crackly but other than that its ok
Nice amp
I wish my YAMAHA AV was this clean to work with . LOOK AT IT !
Relay needs a clean , YEAH I know , stripy strip .
Should those old electrolytic caps be changed ? I know it depends on the customer but what is Your thought about it ? Great video, Thank You
If it was mine I might change them out at some point. I'll be working on my luxman hybrid amp soon and I might just recap that for shits and giggles and see what difference it makes as they are all 1982 vintage.
Is there a fuse in this Marantz ? Thank's
I notice how long it takes the lead to go off after power down - I wonder if the old bulb and resistor were used as a discharge path for the main smoothing capacitors?
Richard
The power light now that it is an LED takes about 2 minutes to go out.
great demonstration on cleaning the knobs. What did you use to clean them?
Nutrol contact cleaner. Deoxit d5 is equivalent.
Nice video. What are you using to clean the switches at the 2:00 mark?
One more question: the output of my 1060 is unbalance; the left is louder than the right both through headphones and speakers; and both through the phono and aux input, so I do not think it's necessarily an issue with the preamp. What do you recommend I do to fix this?
Nice chick corea at the end. I was fortunate enough to meet him backstage at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York. Very cool and humble guy. Got him to autograph my favorite copy of 'Now he sings, now he sobs'. Cheers
Are incandecsent christmas lights robust enough to be used as the pilot light? The small ones I am referring to.
Probably, but an LED will never burn out, and in this instance you will never know. For meters I always prefer the glow of incandescent bulbs, but my old replica vintage GE sure looks nice with WW led.
@@12voltvids In the future, i'll put one in a amp I have with a blown bulb. I'll try it and make a video. BTW the blue led in that Marantz looks really good, nice choice of color, seems to match the vintage Marantz vibe.
do you clean up all the pot cleaner over-spray or is mostly alcohol based? I know the stuff I use would leave a oily mess.
I used the old nutrol. Freon tf based.
@@12voltvids unicorn tears now. You are lucky to have a stash.
Yes I have a few cans of the good stuff that really worked well before the EPA got their hooks into it and yanked it off the market.
All because of a little hole in the ozone.
Looks like plenty of space inside for two KT88’s!
😂
What year would that have been made?
Good old technology, nice wafer input selector :-D
I don't think that mains transformer is big enough lol :-D
i do like the old analog tech, no fancy digital crap.
Yes im biased lol.
And marantz are highly overrated
Alternatively,could a resistor be inserted in series with the pot input in order not to place a low impedance load on the valve output?
Valve output?
@@jimreardon6599 Thanks for pointing that out.
I clearly got my wires crossed from a previous video of the Dynaco PAS3 valve preamp which I watched immediately preceding.
I always turn off any input signal(s) and check for any noise in a pot or switch. With no input, you can hear even the slightest snap, crackle, or pop. Plus you can hear most any transistor that has gone "noisy" (not every time though). But then, I am extremely thorough. I don't like any anomaly. I also insist on at least changing out the main filter capacitors to steady out the ripple as a minimum. Bass will improve remarkably, as well as reducing distortion at higher loads. Electrolytics of that age are just ticking time bombs. The paper inside goes acidic (think of an old newspaper), becomes brittle and can fail catastrophically, or subtly, depending on where the circuit. I have also seen them leak the electrolyte at under 20yrs, corrode, and even eat the PC board away! I am sure you already know all about it, But a lot of people have no clue though about just how much damage can occur when caps fail. The Marantz, and others of these vintage years, deserve the "refresher" to live on! Like the old saying goes; "You can pay me now, or pay me (more) later". ;-)
I had the same amp which i bought for $14.99 @ thrift shop. I fully restored it and sold it two months later for $320
Thrift shop find wow
Now thats a marantz
I use a marantz pm6010 ose myself
Nice!!
What was that first song you were playing after you fixed it?
that record he put on at the end.
What are you using to spray clean?
Nutrol contact cleaner.
Slick job with the LED. That was really nice looking and nice and bright. Also, what did you clean the pots, sliders, and switches with? Deoxit would have been too expensive the way you were spraying it.
Nutrol
nigel mahabir, So what’s that?
This unit is not 17” wide therefore transformer is not that big as some comments suggested. It’s still plenty for current needed.
I know this has nothing to do with anything, really, but I would guess that the power indicator light would originally appear to be white on the outside? The incandescent bulb would glow yellow and the indicator lens is blue, thus tinting the light white, much like how manufacturers in the past would use colored rubber caps over incandescent bulbs to make them appear the desired color.
No the power indicator was blue. Incandescent bulb is white. White light shining though a blue lens gives a blue color, just as with the white LED.
Incandescent bulbs actually radiate all spectrum, more to the red spectrum when run dim, but they are still much more full spectrum than say LED. White LED actually use blue diodes, and the blue light excites yellow phosphor, which when mixed with the blue gives the appearance of white light.
@@12voltvids That's interesting. The reason I thought the indicator might have originally been white was because on my old car, the instrument cluster was illuminated by incandescent bulbs with blue rubber caps on them and they shone through as white. Same with a couple of my older tuner decks with illuminated tuning scales. Well, guess you learn something different every time.
@@jonathanlau1221
The blue rubber cap just slightly tinted the bulb. The thick blue plastic lens would definately show blue. I remember servicing these units.
How do you compare the 1120 to the 1060? Assuming power isn't taken into consideration, which do you prefer?
Great video 12 volts I don't like marantz the sound is very boring to listen too ! Its remind me AM clock radio sound oh well that's my taste
or lack of it. ;)
@@SpeccyMan agree of you mate
Boring is right. Hipsters have pushed vintage Marantz values way up. But it's nowhere even close to high end sound.
So...so...well made AMP by Marantz .depsite that being an old amp that's what sets a quality AMP like that to a crappy £100 AMP anyday .My Marantz SA-15 CD/SACD is exactly the same so well laid out electronics easy to work on and that workmanship is just plain to see .