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Hi Fi or Not?

I don't recall seeing any Yamaha (or Marantz) gear on this forum, but they both have some pretty expensive gear that I would expect to sound excellent.  Does Yamaha (or Marantz) show up to the audio shows?  Who is their target audience since it seems like most audiophiles lean towards more boutique brands?  Here's some of the current top end gear:

Yamaha

C-5000 Preamplifier ($10,000)

M-5000 Power Amplifier ($10,000)

CD-S3000 SACD/DAC($6,000)

GT-5000 Turntable ($8,000)


Marantz

PM-10 Integrated Amplifier ($8,000)

SA-10 SACD/DAC ($7,000)

TT-15S1 Turntable ($1,500)


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the kenwood gear or the 420 at half of retail???  lmao

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i fondly remember the kenwood kd500 concrete plinth tt... mine had a lovely infinity black widow arm, and a sonus blue cart... what a sweet front end

also i had the L07C pre and L07M mono blocks... lovely gear that sound so clean and precise - had ohm f's back then ... quite a system, spectacular sound stages


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top marantz pieces like the ki/ruby series are excellent, make no apologies to upper tier of ’affordable’ brands like primare, belles, naim, rogue, parasound, ps audio - of course their run of mill line is just that... only caveat with marantz is their cd players, even top line ones, have a problem with premature failing lasers... so be careful with those (or buy a spare laser assembly when the piece is current...)

yamahas to me are good not great, their voicing can vary considerably piece to piece - better than mid-fi, but not as good sounding as the one mentioned above... imho and experience
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