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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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jafant
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Thank You for the updates- astru
blueranger and Elizabeth.  Hope you guys are well and enjoying your SA-10.  Happy Listening!
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blueranger OP
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It will be the last SACD player I buy.
astru
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With the Oyaide frame (bought on eBay from Japan and possibly fake) out, most of the brightness is gone. Jacintha's Moon River and Here's To Life became enjoyable again, for example. However, I hope the SA10 still needs break-in because her voice is not as in-the-room/unplugged as with the Sony. Everything else is arguably better, from pinpoint imagining to instruments being more fleshed out and more natural sounding, with better decays. I just need female vocals to become a tad more natural sounding to love this player.
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blueranger OP
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I have had mine a month and yours will continue to resolve more details and place more air around the instruments. Enjoy
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d2girls
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just make sure to use it as intended, as a transport. you can always use external dac/clock
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