The pure, clean warm sound that brings your music to life.
Front knobs that make adjustments easy.
Versatility with tape decks and equalizer hook-ups.
It looks impressive in your audio rack or entertainment center.

No remote control. Gotta get up to adjust it.
Has only one Aux input.

My brother gave this receiver back to me at Christmas. I bought this unit in 1979 while in high school and kept it until I let him have it in 1985. I did not realize how much I missed its rich sound until I hooked it back up and played it again. After 19 years it still works great. I use it in my office at work with 4 Bose 100 bookshelf speakers and an inexpensive KLH subwoofer. I use it to monitor mixed radio spots some, but mostly use it to enjoy music.

There is plenty of information available on the Marantz 2325 on the web that can be located through the Google search engine including reviews, manuals, and service and repair options. All this points to one important thing: this receiver is a great piece of equipment: according to some Marantz collectors, it is the best receiver ever put out by Marantz during the "monster receiver" era of the "70's.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so the proof of the equipment is the hearing. The Marantz 2325 makes your recordings come to life like no other receiver, even compared to the modern equipment available today (unless you go after the expensive high end equipment). If you have one of these, keep it. If it is broke, get it fixed. If you do not have one and can get one, get it!

This unit has on-board Dolby encoding which comes in handy with reel-to-reel tape decks which have no noise reduction. You can also listen to your FM stations with Dolby encoding. The phono pre-amp is excellent. There are two tape inputs which have monitoring features for both. There is also a pre-amp out/ main amp in set of plugs which make it handy to add a graphics equalizer without tying up a tape input/output, or even a powered subwoofer. All controls are on the front, so if you want more or less bass or treble, you simply turn the knob instead of hunt the controls in a menu somewhere. This unit also has a mid-range control which is very handy. There is a controller knob that lets you select between two sets of frequencies the bass and treble knobs control. For the 70's era listeners, the loudness button is very nice to have.

I listen to CDs and iTunes with my Mac notebook or Compaq PC. I use my Peavey as a digital audio converter so the sound from the computers is very clean with virtually no noise, even with 20f lines running from it to the Marantz. With this setup, you can hear the difference between mp3's, acc's and lossless formats.

This unit sounds great with my Bose 100's and my KLH subwoofer, especially with classical music. I do miss my JBL 4311 monitors I had in high school: they were much sweeter, but with limited space for speakers, and limited funds to upgrade, what I have is great!

Smooth classic Marantz champagne sound. Recorded sound does not get better than this at home.

Speaker connects at back are dated.

It was awful at first. Then I opened it up...saw tons of cat hair and 30 years of dust accumalation. Cleaned it up....there was something here. Then I really cleaned it up...de-oxidizing everything....
Put Steve Lacy and Gil Evans Paris Blues on.
Phenomenal.
You know in the old days when you would get a new piece of electronics and everything sounded new again...well that feeling never goes away when you turn this on. Such sweet thunder...limitless undistorted power seems to be at your volume control...if you find one of these, grab it.

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More power than you can shake a stick at, no really...

I hope you have strong eardrums!

Exactly as stated here already. Having worked on these receivers and other Marantz models for over 20 years, I truly admire the quality and sound of these receivers not to mention love working on them and restoring them still today. Like just about anything from days past, "they don't make 'em like they used to" has never been more true. These are some of the most powerful amplifiers that you can find with linear power supplies and discrete components. Today's receivers of comperable power have switching power supplies, integrated circuits in the signal path, and laughable darlington array output stages. Darlingtons have high gain which means narrow bandwidth. The sound speaks for itself. Close your eyes and lift a new amplifier today and then go lift your 2325. The sheer size and boat-anchor-weight of this unit speaks volumes. If you feel that yours is in need of some help to get it back to the way it was and ready to thump the neighbors for the next 30+ years, come by and say hi: www.irebuildmarantz.com

Take care,
~RB

Dolby noise reduction, used with my reel-to-reels.
Excellent damping factor
Tone mode switch, plus the famouse Marantz midrange control.]
My speakers are medium sensitivity (93 db/watt/metre) and I still can't get the volume control higher than 10 o'clock.

Huh?

How do you start to review a classic piece of iconic audio from the mid '70s? Sometimes I sit in my darkened living room with the Marantz 2325 showing its muscle AND characteristic blue glow, listening to Sara MacLaughlin's "Angel", Ravel's "Bolero", or Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". This beast delivers pure listening enjjoyment with a damping factor that gives one of the tightest basses you'll ever hear from a receiver. (It might as well be blue-faced Marantz amp. for you can't tell the difference with your ears).
You know it's powerful when you turn it on and for just a few milliseconds the lamps in the room on the same circuit dim while the massive power transformer powers up.
It's been 31 years and I wouldn't trade the 2325 for anything today! As a matter of fact it's stipulated that when I die, the 2325 must stay in the family, to be handed down like a diamond ring (I'm not sure the younger generations would understand why but when those of you who, like me, grew up with low-fi noise producing trash and were then introduced to hi-fi audiophile components like Marantz, you DO understand) Now excuse me, while I wipe away a tear and subdue the lights and listen to the sweet, pure, distinct, hair-raising sounds and looks of my friend, the Marantz 2325!

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What can be similar to a 2325? I bought my sister a 2218 from E-bay so she could experience Marantz and so she would look audiophilish (is that a word?) when company came over!

Lots of reserve power, incredible, truly *great* FM tuner, great clarity and detail

Nothing comes to mind

This 1974 receiver was built at a time when Marantz really meant something -- namely, the Best. It was the Lexus of audio companies, and this receiver was it's flagship. IIRC, they kept this receiver in it's own special section, and if you walked near it, two pairs of eyes watched you nervously.

Luckily, the quality has held up well, even into our present digital world. Someone else here described the sound as *sweet and spacious.* I think that is a very apt description. No matter what the source, even poor mp3 transfers sound *musical* on this receiver. The separation between instruments and depth of sound field is truly extraordinary. The FM section is the quietest I've heard, sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between it and the CD player. I am using it with a pair of Epos es11, a smallish bookshelf speaker. I can only imagine what this beast would sound like through a pair of floorstanding Sonus Fabers...

Lots of reserve power, incredible, truly *great* FM tuner, great clarity and detail

Nothing comes to mind

This 1974 receiver was built at a time when Marantz really meant something -- namely, the Best. It was the Lexus of audio companies, and this receiver was it's flagship. IIRC, they kept this receiver in it's own special section, and if you walked near it, two pairs of eyes watched you nervously.

Luckily, the quality has held up well, even into our present digital world. Someone else here described the sound as *sweet and spacious.* I think that is a very apt description. No matter what the source, even poor mp3 transfers sound *musical* on this receiver. The separation between instruments and depth of sound field is truly extraordinary. The FM section is the quietest I've heard, sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between it and the CD player. I am using it with a pair of Epos es11, a smallish bookshelf speaker. I can only imagine what this beast would sound like through a pair of floorstanding Sonus Fabers...

cant have it past a quarter volume an ur ears are ringin !!!!!!!!!!! love everything about this reciever. its to bad they dont make em like this today nothing comes even close to these systems

i havent found any of em yet to this day since ive had it

ive owned this reciever marantz 2325 for over ten yrs with out a single problem. its loud as hell i have it hooked up to a g.a.s. amp if anybody remembers those they crank !!!!!!! a buddy of mine wanted to hear it loud to listen to the distortion but there wasnt any to be heard also he said it sounded better than hisfifteen hundred bose system !!!
i told him it would i havent had a problem with it since ive owned it its loud as hell!!

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Looks, Sound, Features unheard of even on todays high priced junk.

none what so ever.

The fabled Marantz 2325 has to be one of the best recievers ever produced by any manufacturer. I used to drool over these at our local Hifi store but at $860.00 I could only settle for a Technics SA. even today it can out horse most components sold today. in pure sound alone it's tops in my book, and the build quality is like a fine watch, the polished aluminum face and control knobs and cool blue dial face oozes pure class. when mounted inside the optional wood cabinet, it's absolutely stunning to look at. easily pumps out 150 wpc and the sound is warm and clean. I purchased mine from a reputable audio restoration Marantz Guru, its like new and built to last another 20 yrs. It's big, beautiful, sexy and still highly sought after, if you can find a good one nab it, you won't be sorry and you will find any excuse to play it all the time.

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I got this stereo receiver from my uncle. At first it had some problem in the left channel, but after I cleaned up the dust inside, it work without any problems. This receiver is VERY powerful,at 125wpc, sound quality is supreme, and the tuner is reference. Althougth it's almost 30 years old, but I still thing it's good, espicaily that it gives you alot of tone controls. If you can open up the case, you can see how good is the component inside.

It took the unit apart to replace dial lights. The unit is built like brick house. so solid all around!!

none yet.

Marantz Model 18 Stereo Receiver. Just took deliver of this 1969, yes 1969 stereo receiver from the original owner a few weeks ago. fixed the burned out dial lamps and away I went. It sounds great. I'm only listening to right now via Grado model 325 headphones. Sound is so sweet and spacious. They knew what they were doing back then, no doubt.

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I had a Model 2325, original owner from 1975/76 up until about 6-7 years ago. Probably should have held onto it. had the walnut cabinet and everything. Now I collect them again. Have old sherwoods, mo