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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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twoleftears
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@riaa... etc.  Hey rhea, no trashing going on.  More of an abstract musing on how designers conceive of what they're doing and what their goals are.

Before some DACs had filters, there were those cubes that came with B&W, KEF, etc.  That always irritated me too.  If the correct sound was *with* the cube, why were the cubes optional?  If the cube exaggerated the bass, why were they available at all.  I suppose one could make an argument about different rooms acoustics, but those cubes were hardly a Lyngdorf.

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astru"I believe the point of the settings is that the PCM format is not lossless, and Marantz provides the option to play with different settings because there is no agreed way to reconstruct the original acoustic signal."

You do not know what you are talking about PCM audio is a clearly established, defined and standardized format there is absolute, complete, and universal agreement about how to recover an analog signal from a PCM data stream and this recovery can be done as has been demonstrated completely error free so it is absolutely bit-perfect "lossless" and there is no debate, uncertainty, or alternative to this scientifically developed protocol so you might want to check your research, references, and facts.
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@clearthink    "3" has got to be your favorite number!🧐😛😁  Yes, 3 emojis in your honor.
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Decoding perfectly is one thing. Carrying an undistorted signal through the analog chain is another. Digital noise is rather nasty and filters don't seem to get alk of it out. My Marantz manual suggests turning off the display, digital outs and the headphone amp!
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