Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

Thank you jayctoy,

That's encouraging, the burning time I had was about 24 hours on red book CD side and 24 hours on the SACD side.  I had an SA 11S3 that was a very sweet sounding player that played all my CD's very nicely.   But it just wasn't engaging one dimensional as opposing to three dimensional.  So I ended up playing vinyl 95% of the time.  A third of my collection is CDs and that's why I wanted to get the SA 10.  I'm hoping the SA-10 is as sweet as the SA 11s3.  But with more three-dimensional characteristics.  After the SA-10 is broken in is that what you're experiencing?  My system is a BAT VK preamp with a Macintoch MC152 Amp and Tara lab speaker cables with audio quest Ruby interconnects.

Stereo5 thank you posting your gear,The Sa 10 will give you more 3D using balance, if I were you to get the most out of SA 10 get a nice power cable and ic . The SA 10 responds to cables.Find a tornado Audioquest source pc and used Columbia Audioquest balance ic.If you have the budget go for used Tellurium black diamond balance ic.Iam using tornado pc on my Ruby with good result. I know you mentioned except aq pc but that’s what I used . I can’t help it , it works. Puron tweak eliminates edgy.

@jayctoy , how do you have your phase switch on your SA10 set?  Do you set it to "Inverted" or to "Normal"?

The instructions in the manual have me a bit confused on that subject.

Iamatthewj.i just put it on normal phase.. 

Stereo-one Let it settle for at least six days.Then play good sacd recording . Don’t expect too much yet.. Just keep on playing it. I bought this player open box as well af MD.Remember it is still your job to synchronize it to your system , and make it sound musically good. This is truly a very very good sacd player .Every time you add something on the system sounds changes.The SA 10 competes with esoteric sacd players. I still believe for 5k it’s a bargain, it’s a well design player.Esoteriic are amazing but you have to pay premium price.Do I miss my esoteric sacd player? Not at all.