The Ruby arrived today and so far so good. It replaced a Marantz SA11s3 (which up to that point was the best CD player I ever had) that after 8 years finally died. I sent it to United Audio which is the factory authorized service center for Marantz. They found the problem, but the parts were unavailable and it couldn't be repaired. Very disappointing to say the least. It now sits in some landfill in PA. Getting back to the Ruby it has a manufacture date of January 2022 and right out of the box sounds very good. I'm sure it will sound better after some more hours. Speaking of hours do you Marantz SACD owners put the unit in standby when finished listening or do you leave it on 24/7. One more thing. It looks like Marantz reduced the warranty from 5 years to 3 years and that is for the entire unit not just the laser assembly.
