Marantz 20-FM (c. 1971)
Surviving documentation on the Marantz 20-FM is thin. The one solid anchor is a contemporary news brief. High Fidelity (January 1971, p.36) reported on Marantz's new $1,000 top-of-the-line Model 19 receiver and noted that its FM circuitry was said to be identical to that in the recently announced Model 20 FM tuner. That makes the 20-FM the standalone tuner sharing the FM design of a flagship receiver, so clearly a high-end piece in the early-Seventies Marantz line. Its own retail price, full specifications, and production details appear to have gone unrecorded in the sources available to the Archive.
Marantz's own advertising of the period told a different story about the lineup as a whole. Ads in Audio (September 1970, p.60) stressed that the least expensive Marantz FM stereo tuner had cost as much as $750 only the year before, and that tuners were now available in more modest price ranges. The 20-FM, by contrast, appears to have been a serious, no-compromise tuner for the top of the range.
No measurements, original price, or owner reports for the 20-FM have surfaced in the period record. What is known fits in a few lines:
- FM tuner, announced by early 1971.
- Marantz claimed its FM circuitry was identical to that used in the Model 19 receiver.
- Left undocumented in available sources: specifications, price, production years, and contemporary reviews.
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