Audioholics has the new entry-level Marantz pair: a 50W per channel MODEL 70 integrated and a CD 70 player at $750, both positioned as the follow-ups to the PM6007 and CD6007. Restyled to match the current family look, and the amp gets HDMI ARC and Bluetooth. The catch is that North America gets the CD 70 and not the MODEL 70.
That split is the odd part. An integrated with HDMI ARC is exactly the product a lot of people in this forum end up recommending when someone wants their TV, a turntable and maybe a streamer running through one box without buying an AV receiver they'll never use nine channels of. Two-channel plus ARC is a genuinely popular shape right now, and pulling it from a market where soundbar fatigue is real seems like a decision made on distributor margins rather than demand. I can't get the full article to load to see whether Marantz gave a reason.
Worth being clear about what 50 watts means in practice: with a sensitive pair of standmounts in a normal room it's plenty, with something inefficient and 4-ohm dippy it isn't, and the spec sheet number tells you nothing about how the supply behaves when a bass note lands. The PM6007 was well liked for being unfussy rather than for being powerful.
Anyone here running a two-channel integrated with ARC as their main TV audio? Curious whether the handshake is reliable day to day, because that's the one thing that would put me off.
That split is the odd part. An integrated with HDMI ARC is exactly the product a lot of people in this forum end up recommending when someone wants their TV, a turntable and maybe a streamer running through one box without buying an AV receiver they'll never use nine channels of. Two-channel plus ARC is a genuinely popular shape right now, and pulling it from a market where soundbar fatigue is real seems like a decision made on distributor margins rather than demand. I can't get the full article to load to see whether Marantz gave a reason.
Worth being clear about what 50 watts means in practice: with a sensitive pair of standmounts in a normal room it's plenty, with something inefficient and 4-ohm dippy it isn't, and the spec sheet number tells you nothing about how the supply behaves when a bass note lands. The PM6007 was well liked for being unfussy rather than for being powerful.
Anyone here running a two-channel integrated with ARC as their main TV audio? Curious whether the handshake is reliable day to day, because that's the one thing that would put me off.
