Those old Marantz blue dial receivers are so classic. That's what I started with. That was a special time when Hi Fi was booming in the 70's. It's incredible how far the industry has come and the prices to boot.

I have a 2240 B... I Love it! I bought it from a St. Vincent de Paul store for $120, and paid a technician $120 to service it. It's the best $240 receiver I've seen. I've been using it every day for 3 years, it sounds GREAT! Thanks for the video.

My Mom had the marantz that was a step above that in model number. They sound so amazing. Clarity is unmatched to some of todays receivers.

My parents bought a Pioneer sx-535 receiver for me in 1974. Had it and played it for 25 years. I think your Marantz is higher end. There was something special about the sound coming out of those receivers.

I bought a Marantz 2250 back in 1976. The best stereo I ever had.

I've known how to do this for a long time now, but I thumbs up because you didn't have a 3 minute intro telling me who you are and a montage

I have a Yamaha CR-620, with much the same plug inputs, but your video has helped me visualize how a setup like this would work and I'm thankful. Super clear and simple to understand. I struggled to find an article that explained the best way to do this plainly.

Thanks for the video and information. It makes me think back to the day. I really like those late 1970's vintage Marantz receivers with the blue displays. I started out with a 2226, BIC turntable with Stanton cartridge, Pioneer Cassette and JBL L36 speakers for $1.000. That helped me establish my credit while attending college. My grades went up because I stayed in my room more listening to my system and actually studied. That era was a lot of fun and I enjoyed all the catalog wish books of gear and vinyl as low as $3.99. It was so fun to go into the different Hi Fi stores to look at all the new gear. Incredible how much some of that vintage equipment is going for today. A new pair of retro JBL L100's for $4k that were $600 back then. I realize technology has made quantum leaps since then and they can't be compared. I don't have that kind of disposable income anymore either. A Bluetooth will get my old gear set up again and I will hear my music without the pops and clicks of my old vinyl collection. Who would have thought back then that today I carrying my favorite music on a 3/8 inch long card that fits into a phone that is slightly larger than an old cassette tape.

was just researching which bluetooth device to add to my Marantz 2235 and came across your video. Simple and timely. Thanks so much. Just reinforced what I hoped would be the fix I needed.

Never thought of this. I have my old SIRIUS receiver going into my Sansui 9090 via FM in my shop. I've been plugging the SIRIUS ac power adapter into a wall plug every time I turn the stereo on. Now I'm, going to run out to my shop (where the Sansui is) and plug the SIRIUS into the "switched" plug on the rear of the stereo and eliminate having to do that every time I go out there. Cool. And now I think I've got the idea for hooking up my 'iDroid' (old smartphone - not Apple!) which has tons of our fave music stored on it. Thanks for the info!

1977-1979 Marantz receivers are incredible!!!

That is a beautiful receiver! I've lusted for a silverface Marantz for years. Thanks for this video, I'm looking to add this functionality to my Realistic STA-82!

Working perfectly with my vintage Pioneer as shown for 3 years, this is a great product! 👍

This is soooooo amazing there is some really good quality Old School systems that deserve to be played still ❤

Excellent tutorial - thank you. I will use this as a way to extend the capabilities of my existing system. I started my system in the late 1970's when I was working for Radio Shack. I had to replace the receiver and turntable in the early 1990's after they ate a lightning bolt but the speakers are still original. Major project to start is transferring all of my vinyl to digital - Bluetooth will be a big help.

There's a very nice receiver! Great idea for modernizing the way we enjoy today's music with vintage equipment

Perfect. I have my 2225B from late 70’s, couple of the pots are crackling, but I love the receiver... Yours is looking clean and spiffy 👍. Great video, thanks!

Great job. I’m electronically challenged and the little instructions that came with my Bluetooth receiver didn’t show a novice like me a thing. Watch your video one time and within minutes it was up and playing great ! I’m playing through my smart phone. Have great speakers with subs and a Old 800 watt Sony receiver. Thank you

I had a 2275 for many years. Finally got tired of old electronics developing minor but annoying issues and me taking huge heavy equipment across town to get fixed. Upgraded to Naim Audio stuff. But still love those old Marantz receivers and am happy they are still in service and making people happy even with the latest tech.

Nice to see someone who understands electronics (I was in it from 1981 at Westinghouse, then Kodak for 18 years and Rochester Institute of Technology 11 years until I retired) Most of the 70's I was an electrical contractor. I've always been a hobbyist, designer for work and in rock bands building speakers, crossovers, pre-amps, stomp boxes, So rewarding! Thanks for the videos! Love term term you use "wall wart" HA HA! I thought it was just local slang!

Thanks so much .. that's fantastic. I see you have an old Marantz receiver, nice. I appreciate you taking the time to show us how to do this. It's easier than I thought.

Man that brings back memories of my Marantz 4220 four channel reciever... with four synergistic HiF speakers.... best stereo I ever had and I had a lot...

I bought the Harman Kardon BTA 10 after viewing this and it saved me from the need to throw my near-30 year old JVC receiver in the trash. I used your mini tutorial to set it up also, because what you've shown here is better than the documentation that comes with the device, or the support material that's available on the manufacturer's website. Many many thanks, kind sir. BTW, that is one sweet piece of vintage equipment. I thought that might be some mid-70's gear as I used to hang with a kid who had the best system in the neighborhood, and his looked similar as I recall.

I love my 2230. Marantz sound was 30 years ahead of its time.

had the same tube amp/receiver with a 3200 Preamp, & 6100 Turntable at home when I was growing up --killer sound. Loved the gyro tuning wheel, used to spin it as fast as I could :P

I used to have a Marantz quad receiver with built in Dolby. Bought it at a yard sale and had it for several years. It died about 25 years ago. I loved the "fly wheel" on the receiver.

Just did this a month ago with my Pioneer SX205. Then did it to my subwoofer system (rca) and 2 black Web karaoke party speakers. I rock. Yeah, it's loud.

I have my bluetoorh connected to a pioneer equalizer first and then connected to my vintage Pioneer receiver. The resulting sound is awsome!

Nice reciever, I also have a 2270 marantz, just put a black face on it. Looks pretty sweet. Thanks for the video and Happy Holidays !

Beautiful ol Marantz Receiver

I've been trying to figure out how I can play my smart phone through a stereo receiver, I've asked numerous electronic people on how I can do this, their response was "Just buy a wireless speaker, they sound great!!! " Ummmm, No!!!... my thought was they wont sound like a vintage receiver w the power they have & through vintage speakers that can handle that power, just like you said in this video. I just picked up a Marantz 2215B yesterday & have been YOUTUBING most of the night last night & started up this morning how I can do maintenance to my unit & that's when I stumbled across your video....I said > Finally!!!! at long last, someone who knows what they're doing lol!!!!! Thank you for this video!!!!

Kids these days don't know what they're missing with these old stereo systems(but then again who wants to listen to their crap on a badass sound system anyway?) I had an old Technics system that could be heard clear as a bell down the street. The good ol days.

I have 2 stereo systems, one upstairs for just audio (CD, tape, turntable) and one surround in the home theater room. I was looking into a whole house audio system, but with all the cell phones and laptops, I can just use this to play any music in either or both systems!

Just what the doctor ordered! I like this easy peasy install. Going to get one to try on my Pioneer sx 60/sg60/Altec Lansing 8-II & Nivico giants. Should be better than my mpow headphones. Hope the neighbors don't mind!

Old school is cool. Old stereos just had a cool look to them.just like the BOOM BOX.

WOW This is some good information on how to do something to your older audio. I have a Old CD player entertainment said I said to myself one day I need Bluetooth on it because sometimes my CD don't work and come across this video gave me a good idea So Thanks for the Help👍👍

Man I love the look of vintage gear.

Your Marantz Receiver is a pretty cool device. It looks just beautiful. 😎

Man o man you are the BEST coming to you for all things tech #GOAT

Excellent Vintage Home Stereo, Marantz!

Nice marrantz they are some good old receivers lots of power

Beautiful and clean old school reicever👌👌

Purchased this product after watching your video instructions. Works great. Thank you.

This video helped me so much!! I have a Harmon Kardon you need to remember to put TV AUX out and also TV on receiver and I am blasting music GIRLS ROCK!!!!!

I just use my headphone jack connected to the audio in on my amp, but thanks for letting me know there is a bluetooth box. I never knew that. oh and yeah, a beautiful marantz!

Good damn that amp is gorgeous!

Great work on this video! I have a BTA 10 myself,it's a great piece of gear,and very simple to pair with my phone and tablets.

Thanks Man, finally my Pioneer Receiver is working with my Yamaha Bluetooth !!

Another good point about hooking the power brick into switched power is that the unit has no off switch, if it's powered on all the time it will jam and screw with your Bluetooth all around your home. On switched power once you power down the receiver it just shuts off.

This was cool, I have a Marantz 2218 and I love being able to connect my tablet to jam my music. Thanks for the instructions.

One of the very few inteligent adult reviews I have seen on KZfaq this week. First thing was you didn't start by saying "Waz Up U Tubers" Second, you spoke the english language at a rate easy to understand / and you sounded inteligent - how refreshing. Thanks for the quality upload -- Regards: john

thats a beautiful vintage reciever. damnnn. i also have 2 recievers from the 70's. One is an STA-235 and the other is simply insane. its a Sansui QRX-999. both in great condition.

No, DON'T get rid of the box, nice to know the name of the product coming into the review.

Ha! I just bought this exact model of Marantz. I love it!

Have a similar set, love it. Thanks for making this!

Man that’s awesome I just got a vintage marantz 2226b with a model 6150 table top and a tape recorder this has been one of the most informative video I have seen so far for someone like me that just getting into home audio system capsule you please do a full video on how to set up a unit with the table top and tape or such

Nice-looking Marantz!! Great tutorial!

Marantz made some good shit back in the day.. Marantz was the Cadillac of Pioneer.

Thanks so much for the info. Been wanting to do this Forever!

Wow. that old Marantz reciever, I remember that one. It's still bad ass.

I have a Marantz 2220b that has a Sony 300 disc CD player attached to the AUX port. I want to wirelessly play outdoor speakers and wondering how to set up this speaker system to my disc player to play my CDs through the audio system outside on those outdoor speakers. Do you set up the output Jack’s of my Sony player to the input of a Bluetooth adapter and stream to my outdoor speakers? What device would I need to do this?

I remember that receiver from back in the day. So cool.

Ooh the Marantz....I have the exact same receiver which I got from my dad after he passed. I just need schematics to rebuild it.

I'm getting one of these! Nice video, man.

Really nice Marantz stereo!

Question for you. I have a record player in another room. less than 30 feet from my Stereo system. if I wanted to connect that record player and play through my stereo in the next room, can I connected an outgoing transmitter like the Miccus Blue tooth transmitter and connect to the harmon kardon you are using in the video?

Hello, do all these bluethoth devices include RCA cables? I have a hifi system which only has RCA INPUT, not 3.5jack. Thank you for the explanation

Your going to use the Wally World device. The MARANTZ STEREO YOU HAVE IS SWEEEEEET! I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 15 YRS OLD LOOKING AT THE ONE YOU HAVE BRAND NEW IN THE SHOWROOM AT MUSIC STORES. THAT TUNING GYRO KNOB IS COOOL!! ALSO THAT RECEIVER HAD EXCELLENT SOUND THROUGH THE RIGHT SPEAKERS .. KICK ASS !

I inherited a 2215B (baby marantz) about 17 years ago and it still works great today. Puts out some serious sound too! I've never used a Bluetooth on it as of right now. Maybe I'll give it a shot! I use to almost exclusively for my large vinyl collection! Do these things ever break down? The man at a specialty turntable shop gave it a checkup and said it looked ok! I hope it can go another 45 years!

?? "It plays and it works." ?? I was kinda wondering how it sounds. Any hi or low end losses? Any frequency compromises? Any buzzing or drop in power or volume?

I like your vintage home stereo very nice also the lights on it

This is great, works well!

Hey Marantz and Harman Kardon teaming up. Two of the most Famous NYC HiFi companies from the 50's rescuing our vintage gear for the new millennium. If only Fisher was still around.

I had a marantz and it blew alot of high end speakers.Was one of the best my second choice is kenwood great sound.Hook up your reciever to your smart tv and stream from it and your tablet great sound

Great video and information! Thanks for sharing. I've just subscribed to your channel!

I love those old Marantz amps they used to destroy speakers

Good explanation, thanks man.

Thanks for sharing this. I have the same, exact receiver. My first stereo, and I still have it. Bought it back in the day, when I was in high school, along with several other vintage Marantz's over the years, including a 2275 i brought up out of the basement to replace an Onkyo in the bedroom that I could never understand, that I utterly hated. It could never drive my Infinity SM150 studio monitors, (monkey coffins) the way the 2275 could. Moved the 2250 out in the garage workshop, paired with a pair of old Klipschorns, and an older Yamaha cd player for music while working on projects, hobbies, etc. Miss it in the house, but have kept up with the times, (for whatever that's worth) and replaced it in the main living room with a newer, digital, state of the art, high tech, Harman Kardon 7.1 home theater unit with all the bells and whistles. Another one I hate. Never could figure out how to do the whole bluetooth thing, but looks like you solved that for me. Seems easier than I thought it would be. I, too agree with you 100%. - I really do not understand the kids today, listening to music on a crappy bluetooth speaker, or worse yet, over their smartphones. In my mind, since the advent of the compact disc, and now, bluetooth we have the access to the best source material ever.- Something we didn't have back in the day with vinyl, reel to reel, 8 track or cassette. But we had better, smoother, amplifiers with cleaner, high current power, and lower distortion. My question to Millenials, and someGenXers: Why would you waste a perfection, by playing it back through an imperfection, and such terrible, imperfect speakers? Go figure. Anyway, it's nice to see there are still a few of us left who have an appreciation for vintage audio equipment. Best part is we can have the best of both worlds. Now I just need to find one of these HK bluetooth devices, and get started. 30 years ago, if anyone ever told me we'd have the internet, cellphones, and bluetooth, and we'd be listening to news and music over a handheld computer called a smartphone, I'd have told them they watched Back to the Future too many times. Thanks again, friend, for your illuminating video on this, and helping an old dog like me, resistant to new technology, benefit from your wisdom and knowledge on this subject. Best wishes, and warm regards.

Hi, I got my my Bluetooth unit at my swap meet for $5. It's not the best sound, but it definitely makes listening to my collection more complete.

Marantz 2250B, brings back only good memories.

It’s working! Thank you very much, Christine

Thanks for the idea - I have a vintage 2325 and wanted to do this same thing. Very nice!

I did that with my 1976 Harmon Kardon 730 Twin. I stream movies from my iPad and use that as surround sound.

I have an old 1970s Wharfedale Linton amp with DIN sockets - is it possible to use this amp for Bluetooth?

That would go great with my 1968 Harmon Karmon Five Thirty receiver.

Nice, I had no idea this could be done. Still using the plug into my phone to hear tunes thru my vintage Pioneer. I've had good receivers since the mid '70's but never was lucky enough to have a Marantz. I'd trade both Pioneers for a good vintage Marantz! LOL

Thank you this is definitely cheaper than a reciever

Hi thanks for your video,I have sony home theater and projector and both have no facilities of Bluetooth ,now if if I want to play movie audio in my sony home theater without wire less then which way I can connect Please explain me Thanks

Beautiful amplifier

Great 👍🏻 nice to see a Marantz Classic

Helped a lot!

Thanks men. Nice video.

Love that Marantz!

Great thank you so much! Got nostalgic for my old Marantz 2230 and just bought a recaped and upgraded to LED, Marantz 2238 at a decent price and was wondering about blutooth. Had plugged my Samsung phone directly in to the mini plug/RCA and AUX but this alows for distance!

thar marantz looks like you just unboxed it.😂 nice .i have a marantz cd changer im usin now for 23 years no issues.paid 350 for it

Fabulous instructions THANK YOU

BTW... that receiver is pretty cool.

Excellent! And in focus!!! Thanks.

So let me get this straight.. You can play recorded music from your phone thru your stereo, but can you listen to music from your stereo to a pair of Bluetooth earbuds also??