The Official Marantz AV7702MKII Thread!

[antennahead]

Great pre-amp. I have the 7702 mkI and love it! My Anthem died and I couldn't wait on the mkII. I totally agree with you on the SQ. It is so clean and transparent, and the XT32 totally tames any room anomalies. I have mine paired with Wyred4sound mAMPS; it's the best sounding system I've ever owned. Price wise I think it's a fantastic bang for the buck.

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by antennahead

Great pre-amp. I have the 7702 mkI and love it! My Anthem died and I couldn't wait on the mkII. I totally agree with you on the SQ. It is so clean and transparent, and the XT32 totally tames any room anomalies. I have mine paired with Wyred4sound mAMPS; it's the best sounding system I've ever owned. Price wise I think it's a fantastic bang for the buck.

That is a great testimonial for the Marantz A/V7702xxx line! I couldn't agree more with your posting. For me, I feel like I hit the big time with Marantz.

Keep'em coming buddy. I know there are more of us out there so, please do post about your experience with this pre-pro, the current or the former.

[solarrdadd]

so far, I have one minor complaint in the design/layout of the rear connections area in that there is no USB connection. there is one in the front, but it's behind the drop down door which is nice for incidental use of a thumb drive or an iphone or something. however, if you had an external HD that was full of music that you wanted to keep connected and out of sight, you are out of luck.

that was a missed opportunity Marantz. I can get around that with a network drive, but, not everyone has a NAS or a PC always on to stream music from.

like I said, it's a minor thing, but, still.........oh and by the way, I'm still loving the hell out of this thing.

[antennahead]

Originally Posted by solarrdadd

so far, I have one minor complaint in the design/layout of the rear connections area in that there is no USB connection. there is one in the front, but it's behind the drop down door which is nice for incidental use of a thumb drive or an iphone or something. however, if you had an external HD that was full of music that you wanted to keep connected and out of sight, you are out of luck.

that was a missed opportunity Marantz. I can get around that with a network drive, but, not everyone has a NAS or a PC always on to stream music from.

like I said, it's a minor thing, but, still.........oh and by the way, I'm still loving the hell out of this thing.

I'm thinking you could always plug that external hard drive into your 105 and send it to the Marantz that way..... but I agree with you, a rear USB would have been nice as well. Since we're nitpicking , I also wish the volume level inside the blue round area was bigger so you could see it from a distance, as it is, I leave my door open so I can tell what's going on. I don't use the 7702 as a HDMI switcher, preferring to send my Directv and OPPO 103 video directly to my monitor, hence no "on screen display".

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by antennahead

I'm thinking you could always plug that external hard drive into your 105 and send it to the Marantz that way..... but I agree with you, a rear USB would have been nice as well. Since we're nitpicking , I also wish the volume level inside the blue round area was bigger so you could see it from a distance, as it is, I leave my door open so I can tell what's going on. I don't use the 7702 as a HDMI switcher, preferring to send my Directv and OPPO 103 video directly to my monitor, hence no "on screen display".

I actually like hitting info so I can see the volume level and what's what with the signal for audio. I sit too far away from mine to see the little blue window! I have everything going into the pre-amp. I have an old tv and everything looks incredible through it especially HD CableTV. but, that's my old tv and my old eyes!

also, since you bring it up, I actually do have another grip, when you hit info, you only get info about the audio and nothing about what type of video signal you get in or are sending out. that information is buried deep in a sub, sub, sub menu and why is that? with my previous pre-amp, I just hit display once to see the audio info input and output and then again to see the video info input and output.

that's something that they can remedy with a firmware update, it's very minor. I plan on sending them my suggestion as feedback to think about.