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Originally Posted by Vintage Pete
There was a store in upstate New York where I grew up called Federal Electronics. They had the whole fleet of Marantz receivers and some of the amps. You just couldn't keep me out of the place! I'd spend hours and hours in there admiring the Marantz gear, along with JBL speakers. I couldn't afford the JBL's then, and my first Marantz amp I mail ordered from an outfit in Maryland called Baltimore Stereo Wholesalers, later to be called Stereo Discounters. Another top contender for my first system was the Fisher TX-50 Integrated amp. Fisher was also a very respected name "back in the day".
Pete
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From the late 70's to mid eighties I bought all of my stuff from Stereo Wholesalers/Discounters. They were by far the biggest retailer locally. I was a Technics fan at the time.