Hm, okay, you say so.
I did mention that it was amongst owners who post on forums.
In the past there has been no shortage of posts on forums, more so in the days of the sacd.net forum, about Marantz laser failures and terrible Marantz service.
The Marantz Reference Series players from SA-7 on, have seemed to have better laser lifetimes that earlier players.
The more worrisome note in this thread is the Marantz Service Center that would not repair a Marantz player for customer pay. In the 00's I used 2 Marantz Service Centers for Marantz repairs that I paid for, with no issues whatsoever.