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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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milpai
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@chayro ,
You meant "burn in"? Hifiman5 does not like breaking anything :-)
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blueranger OP
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The 8005 sounded bad when I first played it but smoother out playing 24/7. The SA-10 is a refurbished unit so expect it a little broke in. It was a well known eBay seller with good feedback and I felt comfortable doing the purchase.
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sfseay
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@blueranger - you definitely don’t need 5G or fiber to stream hires music in your home.  Even streaming DSD doesn’t require more than WiFi “N” or “AC” if your network is operating properly. I have tested streaming DSD 128 files to a Lumin U1 and a PS Audio Directstream DAC with Bridge II simultaneously without issue.  Both the Lumin and the Direcstream were running on a WiFi to Ethernet Bridge at the time
chayro
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You’re right - there is no such thing as break/burn-in.
And bumblebees can’t fly. But while I do believe CD players take a few months to reach their potential, I can’t understand the fact that so many Esoteric owners say they take 500 hours of burn in. Exactly what is burning in, say after 100 hours? That one I could never figure out. I had an Esoteric X-05 for 6 months and I never liked it.  Maybe I only had 490 hours on it when I sold it. 
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hifiman5
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@milpai  +1   "Breaking is easy, building is difficult" - Alexander the Great on building a pier out to attack the island city of Tyre.🧐
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