Marantz

Marantz is a premium audio brand founded in New York in 1953 and now part of HARMAN International, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics; the address listed for it is Oude Stadsgracht 1 in Eindhoven. The range covers AV receivers, amplifiers, AV separates, CD and SACD players, network audio players and high-fidelity systems, sold through a network of specialist Diamond Dealers.

Since 2002 its manufacturing home has been Shirakawa Audio Works in Japan, where around 200 people, from local artisans to lifelong audiophiles, build each unit and submit it to temperature, vibration and drop testing. The plant keeps an archive with one or more examples of nearly every product Marantz has made, and resumed production four months after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.