Marantz 8260 CD/SACD

Dear Ecruz

My response is to send it back to Marantz and have it repaired under warranty. If the warranty period is over my advice is to purchase the Sony N999ES SACD player and have it modded by Dan Wright of Modwright. I originally purchased the Marantz 8260 and the sound was so awful that it is now in my basement. It really sounds better there. By the way, the Sony retails for $1000.00 and then you can mod it when you have the funds to do so.

Interesting that you mention the Sony. I just bought a Sony DVP-NS900V SACD/CD/DVD player on a recommendation from Paul at TRL. He says the modded Sony will "blow away" the Marantz. Even a modded Marantz.

I know the ModWright mods are more expensive than the TRL mods, but they've both received very good reviews. Does anyone know what the differences really are?

Still, I want the Marantz to function properly, for use as a back up or to sell, if I decide to go that route.

E-

Actually, it seems to have fixed itself. Someone in another forum posted that leaving it on all the time made theirs worse. So I turned mine off for a day and now it's fine. Go figure. Plus the discs that I was having the problem with were fairly scratched up. But I had played them many times before with no issue.

Anyway, seems to be fine now.

clean it using cleanning cd, you know, something like maxell. then it should be better

Well, it may have fixed your problem but my player does sound dramtically better when left on. Turning it on and off makes for a mighty long warm up period. Hopefully this is not the case for your player..

Chris