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Marantz

This article is about the audio equipment company. For other uses, see Marantz (disambiguation).

Marantz
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryElectronics
Founded1953; 73 years ago (1953), in Queens, New York City[1]
FounderSaul Marantz
HeadquartersCarlsbad, California, U.S.
Osaka, Japan
ProductsAudio, visual
OwnerSamsung Electronics
ParentSound United
Websitewww.marantz.com

Marantz is a company that develops and sells high-end audio products.[2] The company was founded in New York, but is now based in California.

History

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The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Saul Marantz in his home in Kew Gardens, New York City.[3] In 1964, Marantz was bought by Superscope, a video production company. As a Superscope subsidiary, Marantz had a major influence in the development of high fidelity audio systems, and reached the high point of their success in the mid to late 1970s.[4]

During the 1980s, while owned by Philips,[5][6] a pioneer in compact disc technology, Marantz sold some very well received CD players, but other products in the line were not as successful as in the past. Beginning in the early 1990s, Marantz focused on higher-end components. In 2001, Marantz Japan acquired the brand from Philips and owned all overseas sales subsidiaries.

In 2002 Marantz merged with competitor Denon into D&M Holdings Inc., later named D+M Group. On March 1, 2017, Sound United LLC completed the acquisition of D+M Holdings.[7] On September 23, 2025, Sound United was acquired by Harman International[8].

Company timeline

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  • 1952 Saul Marantz sells his first audio product, the "Consolette" pre-amp
  • 1964 Marantz acquired by Superscope Inc.
  • 1966 Beginning with the Model 25, and then 22 and 28, Marantz starts manufacturing its products in Japan through a partnership with Standard Radio Corp.
  • 1974 A manufacturing plant is opened on the Péronnes-lez-Binche site, Walloon Region, Belgium
    Marantz Europe (1974~1985)
  • 1975 Standard Radio Corp. changes its name to Marantz Japan Inc.
  • 1980 Superscope sells the Marantz brand, dealer network, and all overseas assets (except U.S. and Canada) to Philips Electronics
  • 1991 Marantz's new digital audio enhancement technology (Marantz Enhanced Digital Stereo) is introduced
  • 1992 Philips acquires U.S. and Canada trademarks and dealer network
  • 1997 Saul Marantz dies aged 85
  • 2001 Marantz Japan Inc. acquires the brand and all overseas sales subsidiaries
  • 2002 Marantz Japan and Denon merge to form D&M Holdings, to later be joined by other higher-end audio equipment brands such as Boston Acoustics
  • 2008 Philips sells its remaining stake in D&M Holdings, ending a 28-year relationship between Philips and Marantz
  • 2014 Marantz Professional acquired by inMusic Brands[9]
  • 2017 Sound United LLC acquires D+M Group
  • 2019 Ken Ishiwata dies aged 72[10]
  • 2022 Masimo acquires Sound United LLC[11]
  • 2025 Harman (owned by Samsung) buys Marantz, Bowers & Wilkins, Denon and Polk from Masimo[12]

Products

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Selected products:

Marantz 150 tuner with oscilloscope (1975–1978)
Marantz 2270 receiver

References

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  1. ^ "World of Marantz | Marantz™".
  2. ^ "Audio Illusions: Marantz". Archived from the original on 12 August 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  3. ^ "Legendary Audio Classics: Marantz Classics FAQ". www.classic-audio.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  4. ^ "THE HISTORY OF SUPERSCOPE". Aural. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
  5. ^ Iverson, John. Three's Company in Stereophile, 16 March 2003.
  6. ^ Iverson, John. Philips and Marantz Japan Re-Shuffle Brand Ownership in Stereophile, 4 March 2001.
  7. ^ Nikkei Asia Review 2018-09-23, Pioneer's woes echo those of earlier Japanese audio legends - What became of Sansui, Nakamichi, and Akai?, retrieved 2020-04-24.
  8. ^ "HARMAN Completes Sound United Acquisition to Expand Premium Audio Leadership". HARMAN Newsroom. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  9. ^ White, Dan (15 April 2014). "InMusic Brands (Akai, M-Audio, Numark) Buys Denon Product Lines". DJ TechTools. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  10. ^ Bharadia, Ketan (16 May 2019). "Ken Ishiwata: Forty years of preserving the Marantz sound". whathifi. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  11. ^ Whooley, Sean (12 April 2022). "Masimo completes acquisition of Sound United". MassDevice. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  12. ^ "HARMAN Completes Sound United Acquisition to Expand Premium Audio Leadership". HARMAN. 23 September 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
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Manufactured by Marantz, the Marantz PMD-660 is a portable, solid-state, compact flash audio field recorder. It has 2 XLR (balanced) inputs, 2 line-in inputs, 2 internal microphones and can record in raw WAV or MP3 formats. It is powered with four (non-rechargeable) AA-sized batteries which offers 3.5 to 4 hours of uninterrupted recording.

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Alec Marantz

Alec Marantz (born January 31, 1959) is an American linguist and researcher in the fields of syntax, morphology, and neurolinguistics. Until 2007, he was Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Research Director of KIT/MIT MEG Joint Research Lab. He has been working at New York University since 2007, and became Silver Professor of Linguistics and Psychology in 2019. Since the 1980s Marantz has made significant contributions to syntactic theory, especially regarding the structural representation of syntactic arguments, and the semantic and morphological implications of this representation. In the early 1990s Marantz proposed (together with Morris Halle) a theory of architecture of grammar known as Distributed Morphology. More recently, he has been using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study human language processing, particularly morphology and the mental lexicon.

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Marantz HD77

HD77 is a model name of Marantz 4-way high-fidelity loudspeakers produced during the mid-1970s. They were bass reflex speakers but came with a cylindrical piece of foam which fit into the bass-reflex port of the enclosure, allowing listeners to achieve more accurate bass response similar to that of airtight speaker boxes. Although this configuration wasn’t fully airtight in theory— technically considered aperiodic—the plug used was actually made of closed-cell foam, which did seal the cabinet completely. The plug was cut slightly larger than the port opening, and when inserted and tightened with a retainer screw, it compressed to create an airtight seal, effectively converting the speaker into an acoustic suspension type. The HD77 was designed by former JBL engineer Edmond May. The speaker’s front baffle included resistive potentiometer controls that adjusted the response curve of each driver from soft to bright, offering great versatility and allowing users to tailor the sound to a wide range of listening environments.

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