2. digital
  3. 137205-1252

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.
blueranger
cleeds
6,076 posts
 
astru
... the point of the settings is that the PCM format is not lossless ... there is no agreed way to reconstruct the original acoustic signal.
You must be confused. PCM is very much a lossless format. That doesn't mean it's perfect, but it is most certainly lossless.
astru
19 posts
 
You are saying that a discrete encoding using 16-bit resolution at 44KHz sampling rate of continuous signals from 0 to 20KHz is not lossless? You get quantization errors + you are guaranteed not to be able to recover perfectly the high frequencies. Please "unconfuse" me.
cleeds
6,076 posts
 
astru
You are saying that a discrete encoding using 16-bit resolution at 44KHz sampling rate of continuous signals from 0 to 20KHz is not lossless?
No, not at all. As I said:
PCM is very much a lossless format.
That doesn't mean PCM is perfect. But all audio formats are subject to limited bandwidth and various distortions, to some extent. But no, 16/44 PCM is not a lossy format.
shadowcat2016
132 posts
 
blueranger

Kind of in the same boat............I live rural, maybe two hours from decent audio salons in either Baltimore or DC, so  my experience is primarily based on my experience. No audiophile friends, music lovers yes, audiophiles no. Picked up a Marantz SA14s1 a few weeks ago..............love it, probably my last CD player. I'd read Elizabeth's experience with her SA-10, but that one is a bit out of my range, so the 14s1 is about as good as I'm gonna get in this lifetime, but hey, it's pretty damn good :).........As an aside, I'm still finding ways to make my "room/setup" better. Surprising just how much performance you can squeeze out of the room itself with a little patience.......and little or no money :)
riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook's avatar
riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook
995 posts
 

Twoleftears,

Guess you never listened to an Esoteric player. Are you going to trash one of the Highest end players on the planet if not THE best player because it has 8 Filters to choose from?

More to discover