The SA 10 with good power cord and ic it will even sound better if match to your system.I used High Fidelity reveal pc and tellurium silver diamond ic.Dont get impatience its truly a very good sacd player especially on balance.
Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!
I've been hearing and reading all I can about this player during this last year. I have a 6005 right now and it's a nice player but not as good as my analog rig (10k) so it's not a fair comparison. Elizabeth mentioned that her SA-10 is better than her analog. I will be comparing the 2 SACD players side by side. I have at least 3 CD's in which I have duplicates. I'm fascinated about how the circuitry upsamples to DSD SACD. Well not exactly but somehow an improvement over Redbook CD. I have a 2" thick maple block coming in the same day for it. It's going to be a long weekend. I know it can't work miracles on all CD's. If there is jitter in the recording then supposedly you will never get that out. Speak up if I'm wrong about that.
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Thank you jayctoy, That's encouraging, the burning time I had was about 24 hours on red book CD side and 24 hours on the SACD side. I had an SA 11S3 that was a very sweet sounding player that played all my CD's very nicely. But it just wasn't engaging one dimensional as opposing to three dimensional. So I ended up playing vinyl 95% of the time. A third of my collection is CDs and that's why I wanted to get the SA 10. I'm hoping the SA-10 is as sweet as the SA 11s3. But with more three-dimensional characteristics. After the SA-10 is broken in is that what you're experiencing? My system is a BAT VK preamp with a Macintoch MC152 Amp and Tara lab speaker cables with audio quest Ruby interconnects. |
Stereo5 thank you posting your gear,The Sa 10 will give you more 3D using balance, if I were you to get the most out of SA 10 get a nice power cable and ic . The SA 10 responds to cables.Find a tornado Audioquest source pc and used Columbia Audioquest balance ic.If you have the budget go for used Tellurium black diamond balance ic.Iam using tornado pc on my Ruby with good result. I know you mentioned except aq pc but that’s what I used . I can’t help it , it works. Puron tweak eliminates edgy. |
@jayctoy , how do you have your phase switch on your SA10 set? Do you set it to "Inverted" or to "Normal"? The instructions in the manual have me a bit confused on that subject.
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