I put my old Marantz PM74D up for a while, while I had the McIntosh MC 75's down for some power supply caps. The Marantz is no slouch, by any means. In 1988, Hirsch Houck measured it 1000 hz output power at clipping 132 watts into 8 ohms, 196 watts into 4 ohms, 307 watts into 2 ohms. I realize SS have come a long way since then, but I couldn't get "that" sound, I had grown so accustomed to, for so long. I sold a Pioneer SX-1250, completely gone through, last year. The same applied for it. I do have a Marantz 2252b, in master bedroom which sounds quite good. So it's really apples to oranges. Hard to beat the sheer power of the 1968 Mac's. even if there is a little distortion at higher and I do mean higher, listening levels. Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk