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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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blueranger OP
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Sorry for the typos. I just woke up.
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astru
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Thank you, Elizabeth and Blueranger! I know exactly what you are talking about. However, in my system, the only two new changes are the SA10 replacing the XA5400ES and the addition of an aluminum/carbon outlet frame on the main outlet. I installed the dedicated line 7 years ago and terminated it at the time with an Oyaide R1 cryo outlet. That outlet powers two Furman Reference PCs, one for the amp, preamp, and CDP, and one for the subwoofer and some video components.
The other thing I can think of is that the SA10’s output level is higher than the Sony’s, so the preamp volume is now in a different range than it used to be (and that may mean for Luxman’s LECUA that it uses electronics/paths that have not been used much); still, I do not remember this type of brightness when the preamp was breaking in.
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Thank You for the updates- astru
blueranger and Elizabeth.  Hope you guys are well and enjoying your SA-10.  Happy Listening!
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It will be the last SACD player I buy.
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