I did start my hobby in the last year Superscope did own the whole Marantz company and since then I've liked Marantz stuff. Funny thing is I've been carefully read of gear and listened to everything in my reach and I still like 70s Marantz gear to be good stuff.
That don't stop me listening and investigating anything I can reach but you have to make choices since any equipment seems to have limitations if your budget is limited. So even the P1030 speakers are worth good music for they have overload protection. I did start my hobby with PM250 that had 25watts a side (20-20000Hz, 8ohm, FTC) and that made me overloading my first amp quite often when listening to The Wall or Rainbow. Actually this did occur in most cases with C-cassette because it was recorded in too high level...Does anybody remember those days?
No matter what my likes are I have bought music from iTunes and I even have a free spottily account. Hope we'll have a good time here in the Forum.