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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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elizabeth
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I have to say the main things I noticed are treble purity, big increase, no grunge. The attack, notes have better 'pop' into existence with the Sa-10.Mainly I play CDs. All the time. (I own 2500 Cds. and maybe a dozen SACD.CD dual discs. Plus I do not actually use the SA-10 transport! I am 'saving' it and I use the SA-10 as a DAC for usually a five disc CD changer via Toslink to the SA-10.(Though I also have a Technics DVD-A10 I use via SPDIF RCA, sometimes)Anyway the main thing is how different CDs can vary in quality. Something much more apparent than before. The worst 'bad' meaning I can tell they used 14 bit encoding or something, cheap microphones??.. And that there are 'superdisks' just like there are in LPs. Some are just amazing recordings. Detail, depth, amazing performance..Can hear each breath, every detail.. Others fuzzy, muffled. So the medium is much more a part of the process than ever before.
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jafant
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Thanks! for sharing - elizabethYou are a Peach.  Happy Listening!
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phillyb
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You got a great musical instrument. Good as the recording mastering and will rival
vial any medium, including vinyl. Good power cord will only built upon it's performance. Give a few weeks to settle in and turn it on in the morning if you going to play it at night, weekends leave it on. Most of all enjoy.  
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roxy54
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Elizabeth,
I don't see anyone else asking this question (surprisingly), so I will. Why would you buy such an amazing player, and decide to feed it a signal from a multi disc carousel player? I saw that you said that you are "saving" the transport in the S10, but from what? It should last for many years. I have been using a Pioneer PD S95 that I bought used here for well over 10 years and it still works perfectly. Have you A-B'd both ways to see what performance you might be missing by doing it this way? 
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